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[EP-tech] Question about CORS

Hi, a bit odd me asking a question but I'm a bit rusty.
We've a request from a (non malicious) third party to allow CORS so they can have javascript that accesses /id/ and /cgi/export/ to do clever things.
If there's any way to alter the system via these URLs it's a cross-site-scripting no-no, and from reviewing the code I *think* that those URLs are always read-only.
I thought the REST interface was at /rest/ but it looks like there's another one implemented on /id/
https://github.com/eprints/eprints/blob/3.3/perl_lib/EPrints/Apache/REST.pm -- uses /rest/ https://github.com/eprints/eprints/blob/3.3/perl_lib/EPrints/Apache/CRUD.pm -- uses /id/
I suspect that means that it *is* too dangerous to allow cross site JS to connect to /id/ which is a pity, but security first, right? 

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