intermediateCORS & Cross-Origin Requests

What are the key CORS HTTP headers, and how do you configure CORS correctly in a Spring Boot application?

Tests whether you know Access-Control-Allow-Origin, -Credentials, and -Methods and how to configure them without accidentally opening your API to everyone.

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