Illegal response header Scala Spray pipelining

Question

I'm getting the follow error when I am trying to pipeline a request from Scala spray

[play-akka.actor.default-dispatcher-14] INFO application - Pipelining chain request
[WARN] [03/19/2015 11:08:49.115] [application-akka.actor.default-dispatcher-2] [akka://application/user/IO-HTTP/group-0/0] Illegal response header: Illegal 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header: Unexpected end of input, expected $timesAccess$minusControl$minusAllow$minusOrigin (line 1, pos 1):

^

and here is where I am building the request:

val pipeline =
  addCredentials(BasicHttpCredentials("API_KEY",
    "API_SECRET")) ~>  sendReceive

val response: Future[HttpResponse] = pipeline(Post(api,notification))
Logger.info("Pipelining chain request")
response

I don't really know much about Access Control Allow Origin. Do I need to add some sort of header to this request to get it to work?

dk14 dk14 · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-22T00:18:36

The error itself means Access-Control-Allow-Origin header wasn't parsed correctly (see grammar). This header is pretty new and allows Cross Origin Resource Sharing. Examples of normal Access-Control-Allow-Origin(from here):

"Access-Control-Allow-Origin" in {
  "Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *" =!= `Access-Control-Allow-Origin`(AllOrigins)
  "Access-Control-Allow-Origin: null" =!= `Access-Control-Allow-Origin`(SomeOrigins(Nil))
  "Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://spray.io" =!= `Access-Control-Allow-Origin`(SomeOrigins(Seq("http://spray.io")))
}

I can guess that you may use some old version of spray, which doesn't support multiple origins or maybe it's related to this. Anyway, server returns a response with this header only if Origin header is specified in request (which means CORS initiation), so the problem should be solved by removing Origin header from it.

UPDATE: This is a bug of chain.com API, you use. If Origin header is not specified, they return Access-Control-Allow-Origin: (empty string) to you, so it's not parsable:

> curl -v https://api.chain.com/v2/notifications -X POST
> POST /v2/notifications HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.41.0
> Host: api.chain.com
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
< Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
< Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET,POST,PATCH,PUT,DELETE,OPTIONS,HEAD
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin:
< Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
< Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 01:38:07 GMT
< Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=25920000; includeSubDomains
< Vary: Accept-Encoding
< Www-Authenticate: Basic realm="chain-api"
< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
< X-Frame-Options: DENY
< X-Xss-Protection: 1
< Content-Length: 47
< Connection: keep-alive
<
{"code":"CH004","message":"Must authenticate"}

You have to specify some Origin as workaround:

>curl -v https://api.chain.com/v2/notifications -X POST -H "Origin: http://google.com"
> POST /v2/notifications HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.41.0
> Host: api.chain.com
> Accept: */*
> Origin: http://google.com

< HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
< Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
< Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET,POST,PATCH,PUT,DELETE,OPTIONS,HEAD
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://google.com
< Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
< Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 01:39:10 GMT
< Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=25920000; includeSubDomains
< Vary: Accept-Encoding
< Www-Authenticate: Basic realm="chain-api"
< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
< X-Frame-Options: DENY
< X-Xss-Protection: 1
< Content-Length: 47
< Connection: keep-alive

Illegal response header Scala Spray pipelining

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