What is the impact of Whitelisting a domain in Jira Server?

[Fredrik Åström]

Can somebody please clarify, what are all the implications of whitelisting a domain in Jira Server? 

It is mentioned here that you need to whitelist a domain if you want to enable CORS for requests to the Jira Rest API from that domain. 

However, I'm unable to find any comprehensive documentation of the whitelisting feature that would explain whether there are any other possible impacts of the whitelisting of a domain. 

I'm particularly interested in understanding whether the whitelisting of a domain has any impact on the access controls applied to requests coming from that domain, or whether the same security policies and access controls still apply despite of the whitelisting.

[Joe Pitt]

A whitelist is a list of domains, IP addresses, or programs ALLOWED to access your network, or run on your computer. Many corporate or government sites automatically stop network traffic or programs if they aren't on the respective whitelist. It seems your company won't allow CORS unless the server IP address or domain is in the whitelist. 

[Fredrik Åström]

Thanks Joe but I wasn't referring to whitelisting of IP addresses in a firewall but rather to whitelisting of domains in Jira Server.

[Joe Pitt]

computers also have whitelists. I was on a government contract and we had to add a client program to the whitelist if it was installed. It used a FoxPro database, which isn't supported, so it wouldn't run without it being in the whitelist.  Your SA would know where the list is and how to update it. 

[asy@man.eu]

Hello

Have you found solution for this problem?