[Bug]: HTTP reverse proxy swallows OPTIONS requests — breaks CORS preflight for extensions #7324

Problem

The HTTP reverse proxy used by shopify app dev intercepts OPTIONS requests
and never forwards them to the target application. This breaks CORS preflight
for any cross-origin call made from UI extensions (e.g. Customer Account
extensions calling the app backend through the Cloudflare tunnel).

The root cause is in packages/app/src/cli/utilities/app/http-reverse-proxy.ts:
the proxy forwards every method but does not handle OPTIONS specially, and
http-proxy silently drops the preflight — the request never reaches the
user's app, so no CORS headers are returned.

Expected behavior

An OPTIONS preflight request to the tunnel URL should either:

• be forwarded to the target app so it can respond with its own CORS headers, or
• be answered at the proxy level with correct CORS headers.

Actual behavior

The OPTIONS request gets a response with no CORS headers (no
Access-Control-Allow-Origin, etc.). The browser then blocks the actual
request. The request never appears in the app's logs.

Reproduction

1. Run shopify app dev (any backend — Express, Remix, etc.)
2. From an extension (or curl):

   curl -i -X OPTIONS \
     -H "Origin: https://extensions.shopifycdn.com" \
     -H "Access-Control-Request-Method: GET" \
     https://<tunnel>.trycloudflare.com/any-path

3. Response has no CORS headers → browser blocks the follow-up request.

Opening the tunnel directly with cloudflared tunnel --url … works fine,
confirming the issue is in the CLI's reverse proxy, not Cloudflare.

Impact

Any extension that makes a cross-origin fetch to the app backend during local
dev is affected. Common case: Customer Account UI extensions calling app API
routes.

Related

• [Bug]: shopify app dev with cloudflare quick tunnel not proxying OPTIONS requests #5660 — same root cause, closed with a Vite-level workaround (doesn't fix
  the proxy)
• fix: handle CORS preflight in reverse proxy during local dev #7164 — PR that fixes this by intercepting OPTIONS at the proxy level

Environment

• OS: macOS
• Shopify CLI: 3.x
• Node: 22.x