Why does my browser fetch to FastAPI fail with 'No Access-Control-Allow-Origin header'?

How it was checked: Per FastAPI/Starlette CORS documentation and the CORS credentials rule.

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fastapi
cors
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Fix

Add CORS middleware: from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware; app.add_middleware(CORSMiddleware, allow_origins=['https://your-frontend.com'], allow_methods=['*'], allow_headers=['*']). If you send cookies or auth (allow_credentials=True), you can't use allow_origins=['*']; list exact origins. Also check that the error isn't masking a 500: failed requests often lack CORS headers, so look at the server log.

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