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Adds CORS definition to glossary for CORS End User Guide topic 

With the moving of the Object Storage API content from a
long-form dev guide to a specification, some topics needed
To be added to the End User Guide.

Change-Id: Ib07ba734090e4e8881184085e24665bc5eb78bad
Partial-bug: 1392382
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Erik Wilson 2015-01-29 11:06:35 -06:00
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VM instance being requested.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry>
<glossterm>credentials</glossterm>
<indexterm class="singular">
<primary>credentials</primary>
</indexterm>
<primary>credentials</primary>
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Data that is only known to or accessible by a user and used to
verify that the user is who he says he is. Credentials are presented
to the server during authentication. Examples include a password,
secret key, digital certificate, and fingerprint.</para>
<para>Data that is only known to or accessible by a user and
used to verify that the user is who he says he is.
Credentials are presented to the server during
authentication. Examples include a password, secret key,
digital certificate, and fingerprint.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry>
<glossterm>Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS)</glossterm>
<indexterm class="singular">
<primary>Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS)</primary>
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A mechanism that allows many resources (for example,
fonts, JavaScript) on a web page to be requested from
another domain outside the domain from which the resource
originated. In particular, JavaScript's AJAX calls can use
the XMLHttpRequest mechanism.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>