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One of Basware’s products I work for uses CDN to deliver content for end users. CDN provider is Edgecast, and primary & secondary origins are Azure Blob storage accounts. So far we have not needed any cross domain access to the CDN, but now a new feature required Javascript requests from our application domain to the CDN domain… and browsers naturally block this nowadays. I knew right away that I need to set the Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) headers to our origin servers, but setting this up was harder than it is supposed to be: Azure’s Powershell SDK does not have support to alter this value, and there is no UI to set it in the management portal. There is of course the management REST API you can use to do anything, but calling it with curl is hard due to the authentication scheme. Setting the DefaultServiceVersion property proved to be as complex before, so I knew what to expect. ...