IPFS Config on windows 10

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I’m trying to execute these commands on windows 10 powershell

./ipfs config --json API.HTTPHeaders.Access-Control-Allow-Origin '["*"]'
./ipfs config --json API.HTTPHeaders.Access-Control-Allow-Methods "[\"PUT\", \"POST\", \"GET\"]"
./ipfs config --json API.HTTPHeaders.Access-Control-Allow-Credentials '["true"]'

When I try the first one, I get this error:

Error: failed to unmarshal json. invalid character '*' looking for beginning of value

so I tried with this one suggested from here.

./ipfs config --json API.HTTPHeaders.Access-Control-Allow-Origin "[\"*\"]"

And the result:

Error: Unknown Command "API.HTTPHeaders.Access-Control-Allow-Origin"

How come ipfs team didn’t take this into consideration when they have windows version of it?

Anyone know the proper commands for above IPFS configs on windows 10 using powershell?

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You may need to escape the * (\*).

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I didn’t quite undertand that. Could you type in full command?

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Try ./ipfs config --json API.HTTPHeaders.Access-Control-Allow-Origin "[\"\*\"]". Note: I don’t use windows so I have no idea if this’ll actually work.

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Thanks. I ran that command but I still got the same error.

Error: Unknown Command “API.HTTPHeaders.Access-Control-Allow-Origin”

Seems like configuring CORS is not possible in windows environment.

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Try using something other than powershell (e.g., git bash).

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Wow using git bash worked. Thank you so much.