Externally make a post request to a netlify background function

[nathanmartin]

@kyljmn-mg I’m not aware of any Netlify specific documentation.

You would need to ensure the function responds to the appropriate headers, preflight request etc, it’s not going to occur by default.

See this related thread where I link to someone calling a Netlify function from a Webflow hosted website:

Post request from different domain CORS error - Netlify functions

I have never had success in sending a POST request from a different domain to my https://*.netlify.com/.netlify/functions/post-route . I have allowed the headers as below, but still no luck. const headers = { 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*', 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers': 'Content-Type', 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods': 'GET, POST, PUT, DELETE' }; return { statusCode: 200, headers, body: JSON.stringify({message:'Successfully updated the post!'}) } How…