How to enable Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Filter Settings in Unified Infrastructure Management (UIM) Webservices rest probe

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

• CORS Filter is the first universal solution for fitting Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) support to Java web applications.
• CORS is a recent W3C effort to introduce a standard mechanism for enabling cross-domain requests from web browsers to servers that wish to handle them.
• Currently the webservices_rest probe does not have the CORS filter added.

Environment

UIM 9.02
webservices_rest probe 9.02

Resolution

Whilst the webservices_rest can support CORS it is not possible to manually modify the web.xml to add this as it is packed with the webservices_rest.war

Engineering has created a test patch that adds CORS to the webservices_rest probe
see DE409698

Additional Information

How to enable CORS on Tomcat for WASP (uimapi)
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleId=187756