Regarding Tomcat filter, not sure, I most of the time end up doing my own
filter too.
Maybe, forward the email to tomcat mailing list too.
Yes, if you use * it defeats the purpose of the CORS protection.
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i cannot seem to get the CORS filter in Tomcat working
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/filter.html#CORS_Filter
i ended up creating a custom filter like the accepted answer in
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38354664/enable-cors-on-tomcat-8-0-30
also, every tutorial seems to