--- a/web/cors.py	Mon Jan 04 18:40:30 2016 +0100
+++ /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,113 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# copyright 2014 Logilab, PARIS
-
-"""A set of utility functions to handle CORS requests
-
-Unless specified, all references in this file are related to:
-  http://www.w3.org/TR/cors
-
-The provided implementation roughly follows:
-  http://www.html5rocks.com/static/images/cors_server_flowchart.png
-
-See also:
-  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTTP/Access_control_CORS
-
-"""
-
-from six.moves.urllib.parse import urlsplit
-
-from cubicweb.web import LOGGER
-info = LOGGER.info
-
-class CORSFailed(Exception):
-    """Raised when cross origin resource sharing checks failed"""
-
-
-class CORSPreflight(Exception):
-    """Raised when cross origin resource sharing checks detects the
-    request as a valid preflight request"""
-
-
-def process_request(req, config):
-    """
-    Process a request to apply CORS specification algorithms
-
-    Check whether the CORS specification is respected and set corresponding
-    headers to ensure response complies with the specification.
-
-    In case of non-compliance, no CORS-related header is set.
-    """
-    base_url = urlsplit(req.base_url())
-    expected_host = '://'.join((base_url.scheme, base_url.netloc))
-    if not req.get_header('Origin') or req.get_header('Origin') == expected_host:
-        # not a CORS request, nothing to do
-        return
-    try:
-        # handle cross origin resource sharing (CORS)
-        if req.http_method() == 'OPTIONS':
-            if req.get_header('Access-Control-Request-Method'):
-                # preflight CORS request
-                process_preflight(req, config)
-        else: # Simple CORS or actual request
-            process_simple(req, config)
-    except CORSFailed as exc:
-        info('Cross origin resource sharing failed: %s' % exc)
-    except CORSPreflight:
-        info('Cross origin resource sharing: valid Preflight request %s')
-        raise
-
-def process_preflight(req, config):
-    """cross origin resource sharing (preflight)
-    Cf http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/#resource-preflight-requests
-    """
-    origin = check_origin(req, config)
-    allowed_methods = set(config['access-control-allow-methods'])
-    allowed_headers = set(config['access-control-allow-headers'])
-    try:
-        method = req.get_header('Access-Control-Request-Method')
-    except ValueError:
-        raise CORSFailed('Access-Control-Request-Method is incorrect')
-    if method not in allowed_methods:
-        raise CORSFailed('Method is not allowed')
-    try:
-        req.get_header('Access-Control-Request-Headers', ())
-    except ValueError:
-        raise CORSFailed('Access-Control-Request-Headers is incorrect')
-    req.set_header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', allowed_methods, raw=False)
-    req.set_header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', allowed_headers, raw=False)
-
-    process_common(req, config, origin)
-    raise CORSPreflight()
-
-def process_simple(req, config):
-    """Handle the Simple Cross-Origin Request case
-    """
-    origin = check_origin(req, config)
-    exposed_headers = config['access-control-expose-headers']
-    if exposed_headers:
-        req.set_header('Access-Control-Expose-Headers', exposed_headers, raw=False)
-    process_common(req, config, origin)
-
-def process_common(req, config, origin):
-    req.set_header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', origin)
-    # in CW, we always support credential/authentication
-    req.set_header('Access-Control-Allow-Credentials', 'true')
-
-def check_origin(req, config):
-    origin = req.get_header('Origin').lower()
-    allowed_origins = config.get('access-control-allow-origin')
-    if not allowed_origins:
-        raise CORSFailed('access-control-allow-origin is not configured')
-    if '*' not in allowed_origins and origin not in allowed_origins:
-        raise CORSFailed('Origin is not allowed')
-    # bit of sanity check; see "6.3 Security"
-    myhost = urlsplit(req.base_url()).netloc
-    host = req.get_header('Host')
-    if host != myhost:
-        info('cross origin resource sharing detected possible '
-             'DNS rebinding attack Host header != host of base_url: '
-             '%s != %s' % (host, myhost))
-        raise CORSFailed('Host header and hostname do not match')
-    # include "Vary: Origin" header (see 6.4)
-    req.headers_out.addHeader('Vary', 'Origin')
-    return origin