Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check

Question

I'm getting this error using ngResource to call a REST API on Amazon Web Services:

XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://server.apiurl.com:8000/s/login?login=facebook. Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost' is therefore not allowed access. Error 405

Service:

socialMarkt.factory('loginService', ['$resource', function ($resource) {
    var apiAddress = "http://server.apiurl.com:8000/s/login/";
    return $resource(apiAddress, {
        login: "facebook",
        access_token: "@access_token",
        facebook_id: "@facebook_id"
    }, {
        getUser: {
            method: 'POST'
        }
    });
}]);

Controller:

[...]
loginService.getUser(JSON.stringify(fbObj)),
    function (data) {
        console.log(data);
    },
    function (result) {
        console.error('Error', result.status);
    }
[...]

I'm using Chrome, and I dont know what else to do in order to fix this problem. I've even configured the server to accept headers from origin localhost.

Answer 1

You are running into CORS issues.

There are several ways to fix/workaround this.

1. Turn off CORS. For example: how to turn off cors in chrome
2. Use a plugin for your browser
3. Use a proxy such as nginx. example of how to set up
4. Go through the necessary setup for your server. This is more a factor of the web server you have loaded on your EC2 instance (presuming this is what you mean by "Amazon web service"). For your specific server you can refer to the enable CORS website.

More verbosely, you are trying to access api.serverurl.com from localhost. This is the exact definition of cross domain request.

By either turning it off just to get your work done (OK, but poor security for you if you visit other sites and just kicks the can down the road) you can use a proxy which makes your browser think all requests come from local host when really you have local server that then calls the remote server.

so api.serverurl.com might become localhost:8000/api and your local nginx or other proxy will send to the correct destination.

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Answer 2

My "API Server" is an PHP Application so to solve this problem I found the below solution to work:

Place the lines in index.php

header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');
header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, PATCH, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS');
header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Origin, Content-Type, X-Auth-Token');

Answer 3

In AspNetCore web api, this issue got fixed by adding "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Cors" (ver 1.1.1) and adding the below changes on Startup.cs.

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{ 
    services.AddCors(options =>
    {
          options.AddPolicy("AllowAllHeaders",
                builder =>
            {
                    builder.AllowAnyOrigin()
                           .AllowAnyHeader()
                           .AllowAnyMethod();
                });
    });
    .
    .
    .
}

and

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory)
{


    // Shows UseCors with named policy.
    app.UseCors("AllowAllHeaders");
    .
    .
    .
}

and putting [EnableCors("AllowAllHeaders")] on the controller.

Answer 4

There are some caveats when it comes to CORS. First, it does not allow wildcards * but don't hold me on this one I've read it somewhere and I can't find the article now.

If you are making requests from a different domain you need to add the allow origin headers.

 Access-Control-Allow-Origin: www.other.com 

If you are making requests that affect server resources like POST/PUT/PATCH, and if the mime type is different than the following application/x-www-form-urlencoded, multipart/form-data, or text/plain the browser will automatically make a pre-flight OPTIONS request to check with the server if it would allow it.

So your API/server needs to handle these OPTIONS requests accordingly, you need to respond with the appropriate access control headers and the http response status code needs to be 200.

The headers should be something like this, adjust them for your needs:

   Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, POST, DELETE, OPTIONS
   Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type
   Access-Control-Max-Age: 86400

The max-age header is important, in my case, it wouldn't work without it, I guess the browser needs the info for how long the "access rights" are valid.

In addition, if you are making e.g. a POST request with application/json mime from a different domain you also need to add the previously mentioned allow origin header, so it would look like this:

   Access-Control-Allow-Origin: www.other.com 
   Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, POST, DELETE, OPTIONS
   Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type
   Access-Control-Max-Age: 86400

When the pre-flight succeeds and gets all the needed info your actual request will be made.

Generally speaking, whatever Access-Control headers are requested in the initial or pre-flight request, should be given in the response in order for it to work.

There is a good example in the MDN docs here on this link, and you should also check out this SO post

Answer 5

JavaScript XMLHttpRequest and Fetch follow the same-origin policy. So, a web application using XMLHttpRequest or Fetch could only make HTTP requests to its own domain.

Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Access_control_CORS

You have to send the Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * HTTP header from your server side.

If you are using Apache as your HTTP server then you can add it to your Apache configuration file like this:

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
    Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
</IfModule>

Mod_headers is enabled by default in Apache, however, you may want to ensure it's enabled by running:

 a2enmod headers

Answer 6

If you're writing a chrome-extension

You have to add in the manifest.json the permissions for your domain(s).

"permissions": [
   "http://example.com/*",
   "https://example.com/*",
   "http://www.example.com/*",
   "https://www.example.com/*"
]

Answer 7

If you are using IIS server by chance. you can set below headers in the HTTP request headers option.

Access-Control-Allow-Origin:*
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: 'HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE'
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: 'Origin, Content-Type, X-Auth-Token';

with this all post, get etc., will work fine.

Answer 8

To fix cross-origin-requests issues in a Node JS application:

npm i cors

And simply add the lines below to the app.js

let cors = require('cors')
app.use(cors())

Answer 9

In PHP you can add the headers:

<?php
header ("Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *");
header ("Access-Control-Expose-Headers: Content-Length, X-JSON");
header ("Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, PATCH, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS");
header ("Access-Control-Allow-Headers: *");
...

Answer 10

For python flask server, you can use the flask-cors plugin to enable cross domain requests.

See : https://flask-cors.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Answer 11

Our team occasionally sees this using Vue, axios and a C# WebApi. Adding a route attribute on the endpoint you're trying to hit fixes it for us.

[Route("ControllerName/Endpoint")]
[HttpOptions, HttpPost]
public IHttpActionResult Endpoint() { }

Answer 12

In my Apache VirtualHost config file, I have added following lines :

Header always set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
Header always set Access-Control-Allow-Methods "POST, GET, OPTIONS, DELETE, PUT"
Header always set Access-Control-Max-Age "1000"
Header always set Access-Control-Allow-Headers "x-requested-with, Content-Type, origin, authorization, accept, client-security-token"

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} OPTIONS
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [R=200,L]

Answer 13

For those are using Lambda Integrated Proxy with API Gateway. You need configure your lambda function as if you are submitting your requests to it directly, meaning the function should set up the response headers properly. (If you are using custom lambda functions, this will be handled by the API Gateway.)

//In your lambda's index.handler():
exports.handler = (event, context, callback) => {
     //on success:
     callback(null, {
           statusCode: 200,
           headers: {
                "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" : "*"
           }
     }
}

Answer 14

I think disabling CORS from Chrome is not good way, because if you are using it in ionic, certainly in Mobile Build the Issue will raise Again.

So better to Fix in your Backend.

First of all In header, you need to set-

• header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');
• header('Header set Access-Control-Allow-Headers: "Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept"');

And if API is behaving as GET and POST both then also Set in your header-

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'OPTIONS') { if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCESS_CONTROL_REQUEST_METHOD'])) header("Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, OPTIONS");
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCESS_CONTROL_REQUEST_HEADERS'])) header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers:
{$_SERVER['HTTP_ACCESS_CONTROL_REQUEST_HEADERS']}"); exit(0); }

Answer 15

A very common cause of this error could be that the host API had mapped the request to a http method (e.g. PUT) and the API client is calling the API using a different http method (e.g. POST or GET)

Answer 16

For anyone using Api Gateway's HTTP API and the proxy route ANY /{proxy+}

You will need to explicitly define your route methods in order for CORS to work.

Wish this was more explicit in the AWS Docs for Configuring CORS for an HTTP API

Was on a 2 hour call with AWS Support and they looped in one of their senior HTTP API developers, who made this recommendation.

Hopefully this post can save some time and effort for those who are working with Api Gateway HTTP API.

Answer 17

I have faced with this problem when DNS server was set to 8.8.8.8 (google's). Actually, the problem was in router, my application tried to connect with server through the google, not locally (for my particular case). I have removed 8.8.8.8 and this solved the issue. I know that this issues solved by CORS settings, but maybe someone will have the same trouble as me

Answer 18

I am using AWS sdk for uploads, after spending some time searching online i stumbled upon this thread. thanks to @lsimoneau 45581857 it turns out the exact same thing was happening. I simply pointed my request Url to the region on my bucket by attaching the region option and it worked.

 const s3 = new AWS.S3({
 accessKeyId: config.awsAccessKeyID,
 secretAccessKey: config.awsSecretAccessKey,
 region: 'eu-west-2'  // add region here });

Answer 19

Using the Cors option in the API gateway, I used the following settings shown above

Also, note, that your function must return a HTTP status 200 in response to an OPTIONS request, or else CORS will also fail.

Answer 20

The standalone distributions of GeoServer include the Jetty application server. Enable Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) to allow JavaScript applications outside of your own domain to use GeoServer.

Uncomment the following <filter> and <filter-mapping> from webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF/web.xml:

<web-app>
  <filter>
      <filter-name>cross-origin</filter-name>
      <filter-class>org.eclipse.jetty.servlets.CrossOriginFilter</filter-class>
  </filter>
  <filter-mapping>
      <filter-name>cross-origin</filter-name>
      <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
  </filter-mapping>
</web-app>

Answer 21

It's easy to solve this issue just with few steps easily,without worrying about anything. Kindly,Follow the steps to solve it .

1. open (https://www.npmjs.com/package/cors#enabling-cors-pre-flight)
2. go to installation and copy the command npm install cors to install via node terminal
3. go to Simple Usage (Enable All CORS Requests) by scrolling.then copy and paste the complete declartion in ur project and run it...that will work for sure.. copy the comment code and paste in ur app.js or any other project and give a try ..this will work.this will unlock every cross origin resource sharing..so we can switch between serves for your use

Answer 22

Something that is very easy to miss...

IN solution explorer, right-click api-project. In properties window set 'Anonymous Authentication' to Enabled !!!

Answer 23

Please restart your chrome/web browser and check the API request again. It worked for me.

Answer 24

Disable the chrome security.Create a chrome shortcut right click -> properties -> target, paste this "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --disable-web-security --user-data-dir="c:/chromedev"