AuthMiddleware is the outermost middleware, so a credential-less CORS preflight
(OPTIONS + Access-Control-Request-Method) was rejected with 401 before
CORSMiddleware could answer it. That blocks every cross-origin browser/WebView
client: the preflight fails, so the real request is never sent.
Let a genuine preflight through at the top of AuthMiddleware.dispatch via a pure,
unit-tested predicate (core.middleware.is_cors_preflight). Precise -- only
OPTIONS carrying Access-Control-Request-Method; a credentialed request is never
matched -- and no data access.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Marius