Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) allows web applications to bypass a browser's same origin policy. When both the web server and browser support CORS, a proxy is not required to do cross-domain requests. This both simplifies application development and potentially provides a performance boost. Development is simplified because it is no longer necessary to maintain a proxy page on your server. The performance boost comes from accessing a resource directly rather than sending a request back to your server, which then requests the specified URL and returns the result.
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) allows web applications to bypass a browser's same origin policy. When both the web server and browser support CORS, a proxy is not required to do cross-domain requests. This both simplifies application development and potentially provides a performance boost. Development is simplified because it is no longer necessary to maintain a proxy page on your server. The performance boost comes from accessing a resource directly rather than sending a request back to your server, which then requests the specified URL and returns the result.