How to solve 'Redirect has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header'? - javascript

I am working on an app using Vue js.
According to my setting I need to pass to a variable to my URL when setting change.
<!-- language: lang-js -->
$.get('http://172.16.1.157:8002/firstcolumn/' + c1v + '/' + c1b, function (data) {
// some code...
});
But when my app hit on URL, it shows the following message.
Failed to load http://172.16.1.157:8002/firstcolumn/2017-03-01/2017-10-26: Redirect from 'http://172.16.1.157:8002/firstcolumn/2017-03-01/2017-10-26' to 'http://172.16.1.157:8002/firstcolumn/2017-03-01/2017-10-26/' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:8080' is therefore not allowed access.

In addition to what awd mentioned about getting the person responsible for the server to reconfigure (an impractical solution for local development) I use a change-origin chrome plugin like this:
Moesif Orign & CORS Changer (use to be free but now wants a work email address >_>)
Allow CORS: Access-Control-Allow-Origin
You can make your local dev server (ex: localhost:8080) to appear to be coming from 172.16.1.157:8002 or any other domain.
In case the 2nd plugin link breaks in the future or the plugin writer decides to capitalize off the fame of this thread, open your browser's
plugin marketplace and search "allow cors", there's going to be a
bunch of them.

Thanks all, I solved by this extension on chrome.
Allow CORS: Access-Control-Allow-Origin

If you have control over your server, you can use PHP:
<?PHP
header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');
?>

Ask the person maintaining the server at http://172.16.1.157:8002/ to add your hostname to Access-Control-Allow-Origin hosts, the server should return a header similar to the following with the response-
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: yourhostname:port

Using npm:
To allow cross-origin requests install 'cors':
npm i cors
Add this in the server-side:
let cors = require("cors");
app.use(cors());

When you have this problem with Chrome, you don't need an Extension.
Start Chrome from the Console:
chrome.exe --user-data-dir="C:/Chrome dev session" --disable-web-security
Maybe you have to close all Tabs in Chrome and restart it.

I will assume that you're a front-end developer only and that you don't have access to the backend of the application (regarding the tags of the question).
Short answer on how to properly solve this in your case? You can't, you'll need somebody else.
What is this about?
You need to understand that CORS is a security thing, it's not just here to annoy you just for fun.
It's purpose is to mainly prevent the usage of a (malicious) HTTP call from a non-whitelisted frontend to your backend with some critical mutation.
You could give a look to this YouTube video or any other one really, but I recommend a visual video because text-based explanation can be quite hard to understand.
You also need to understand that if you use Postman or any other tool to try your API call, you will not get the CORS issue. The reason being that those tools are not Web frontends but rather some server-based tools.
Hence, don't be surprised if something is working there but not in your Vue app, the context is different.
Now, how to solve this?
Depending of the framework used by your backend team, the syntax may be quite different but overall, you'll need to tell them to provide something like Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://localhost:3000 (or any other port you'll be using).
PS: Using Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * would be quite risky because it would allow anybody to access it, hence why a stricter rule is recommended.
If you're using a service, like an API to send SMS, payment, some Google console or something else really, you'll need to allow your localhost in the dashboard of the service. Ask for credentials to your manager or Tech Lead.
If you have access to the backend, you could it yourself as shown here (ExpressJS in this example): https://flaviocopes.com/cors/
How to hack it in a dirty way?
If you're in a damn hurry and want to get something really dirty, you could use a lot of various hacks a listed in the other answers, here's a quick list:
use any extension who is able to create a middleware and forward the request to the backend (it will work because it's not directly coming from your frontend)
force your browser to disable CORS, not sure how this would actually solve the issue
use a proxy, if you're using Nuxt2, #nuxtjs/proxy is a popular one but any kind of proxy (even a real backend will do the job)
any other hack related somehow to the 3 listed above...
At the end, solving the CORS issue can be done quite fast and easily. You only need to communicate with your team or find something on your side (if you have access to the backend/admin dashboard of some service).
I heavily do recommend trying get it right from the beginning because it's related to security and that it may be forgotten down the road...

The approved answer to this question is not valid.
You need to set headers on your server-side code
app.use((req,res,next)=>{
res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Origin','*');
res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Methods','GET,POST,PUT,PATCH,DELETE');
res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Methods','Content-Type','Authorization');
next();
})
You can also try a chrome extension to add these headers automatically.

Hello If I understood it right you are doing an XMLHttpRequest to a different domain than your page is on. So the browser is blocking it as it usually allows a request in the same origin for security reasons. You need to do something different when you want to do a cross-domain request. A tutorial about how to achieve that is Using CORS.
When you are using postman they are not restricted by this policy. Quoted from Cross-Origin XMLHttpRequest:
Regular web pages can use the XMLHttpRequest object to send and receive data from remote servers, but they're limited by the same origin policy. Extensions aren't so limited. An extension can talk to remote servers outside of its origin, as long as it first requests cross-origin permissions.

To add the CORS authorization to the header using Apache, simply add the following line inside either the <Directory>, <Location>, <Files> or <VirtualHost> sections of your server config (usually located in a *.conf file, such as httpd.conf or apache.conf), or within a .htaccess file:
Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
And then restart apache.
Altering headers requires the use of mod_headers. Mod_headers is enabled by default in Apache, however, you may want to ensure it's enabled.

I had the same problem in my Vue.js and SpringBoot projects. If somebody work with spring you can add this code:
#Bean
public FilterRegistrationBean simpleCorsFilter() {
UrlBasedCorsConfigurationSource source = new UrlBasedCorsConfigurationSource();
CorsConfiguration config = new CorsConfiguration();
config.setAllowCredentials(true);
// *** URL below needs to match the Vue client URL and port ***
config.setAllowedOrigins(Collections.singletonList("http://localhost:8080"));
config.setAllowedMethods(Collections.singletonList("*"));
config.setAllowedHeaders(Collections.singletonList("*"));
source.registerCorsConfiguration("/**", config);
FilterRegistrationBean bean = new FilterRegistrationBean<>(new CorsFilter(source));
bean.setOrder(Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE);
return bean;
}
I found solution in this article Build a Simple CRUD App with Spring Boot and Vue.js

You are making a request to external domain 172.16.1.157:8002/ from your local development server that is why it is giving cross origin exception.
Either you have to allow headers Access-Control-Allow-Origin:* in both frontend and backend or alternatively use this extension cors header toggle - chrome extension unless you host backend and frontend on the same domain.

Try running this command in your terminal and then test it again.
curl -H "origin: originHost" -v "RequestedResource"
Eg:
If my originHost equals https://localhost:8081/ and my RequestedResource equals https://example.com/
My command would be as below:
curl -H "origin: https://localhost:8081/" -v "https://example.com/"
If you can notice the following line then it should work for you.
< access-control-allow-origin: *
Hope this helps.

Do specify #CrossOrigin(origins = "http://localhost:8081")
in Controller class.

You can solve this temporarily by using the Firefox add-on, CORS Everywhere. Just open Firefox, press Ctrl+Shift+A , search the add-on and add it!

You won't believe this,
Make sure to add "." at the end of the "url"
I got a similar error with this code:
fetch(https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=jack+johnson)
.then( response => {
return response.json();
})
.then(data => {
console.log(data.results);
}).catch(error => console.log('Request failed:', error))
The error I got:
Access to fetch at 'https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=jack+johnson'
from origin 'http://127.0.0.1:5500' has been blocked by CORS policy:
No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested
resource. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.
But I realized after a lot of research that the problem was that I did not copy the
right URL address from the iTunes API documentation.
It should have been
https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=jack+johnson.
not
https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=jack+johnson
Notice the dot at the end
There is a huge explanation about why the dot is important quoting issues about DNS and character encoding but the truth is you probably do not care. Try adding the dot it might work for you too.
When I added the "." everything worked like a charm.
I hope it works for you too.

install:
npm i cors
Then include cors():
app.get("/list",cors(),(req,res) =>{
});

In addition to the Berke Kaan Cetinkaya's answer.
If you have control over your server, you can do the following in ExpressJs:
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
// update to match the domain you will make the request from
res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "YOUR-DOMAIN.TLD");
res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "GET,HEAD,OPTIONS,POST,PUT");
res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept");
next();
});
https://enable-cors.org/server_expressjs.html

I tried this code,and that works for me.You can see the documentation in this link
var io = require("socket.io")(http, {
cors: {
origin: "*",
methods: ["GET", "POST"]
}
})

The reason that I came across this error was that I hadn't updated the path for different environments.

you have to customize security for your browser or allow permission through customizing security. (it is impractical for your local testing)
to know more about please go through the link.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS

These errors may be caused due to follow reasons, ensure the following steps are followed. To connect the local host with the local virtual machine(host). Here, I'am connecting http://localhost:3001/ to the http://abc.test Steps to be followed:
1.We have to allow CORS, placing Access-Control-Allow-Origin: in header of request
may not work. Install a google extension which enables a CORS request.*
2.Make sure the credentials you provide in the request are valid.
3.Make sure the vagrant has been provisioned. Try vagrant up --provision this make the localhost connect to db of the homestead.
Try changing the content type of the header. header:{ 'Content-Type' : 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8;application/json' }
this point is very important.

Another solution to this problem in a specific scenario :
If
AWS APIGW is your backend with authentication enabled and
authentication fails,
your browser may end up complaining about CORS even if CORS is enabled in APIGW. You also need to enable CORS for 4XX as follows
API:YourAPI > Resources > /YourResource > Actions > Enable CORS > Gateway Responses for yourAPI check Default 4XX
Authentication will still fail but it won't look like CORS is the root cause

$.get('https://172.16.1.157:8002/firstcolumn/' + c1v + '/' + c1b, function (data) {
// some code...
});
Just put "https" .

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I can hit this endpoint, http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts?number=99 via Postman and it returns JSON
Additionally I am using create-react-app and would like to avoid setting up any server config.
In my client code I am trying to use fetch to do the same thing, but I get the error:
No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested
resource. Origin 'http://localhost:3000' is therefore not allowed
access. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's
mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.
So I am trying to pass in an object, to my Fetch which will disable CORS, like so:
fetch('http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts?number=99', { mode: 'no-cors'})
.then(blob => blob.json())
.then(data => {
console.table(data);
return data;
})
.catch(e => {
console.log(e);
return e;
});
Interestingly enough the error I get is actually a syntax error with this function. I am not sure my actual fetch is broken, because when I remove the { mode: 'no-cors' } object, and supply it with a different URL it works just fine.
I have also tried to pass in the object { mode: 'opaque'} , but this returns the original error from above.
I belive all I need to do is disable CORS.. What am I missing?
mode: 'no-cors' won’t magically make things work. In fact it makes things worse, because one effect it has is to tell browsers, “Block my frontend JavaScript code from seeing contents of the response body and headers under all circumstances.” Of course you never want that.
What happens with cross-origin requests from frontend JavaScript is that browsers by default block frontend code from accessing resources cross-origin. If Access-Control-Allow-Origin is in a response, then browsers relax that blocking and allow your code to access the response.
But if a site sends no Access-Control-Allow-Origin in its responses, your frontend code can’t directly access responses from that site. In particular, you can’t fix it by specifying mode: 'no-cors' (in fact that’ll ensure your frontend code can’t access the response contents).
However, one thing that will work: if you send your request through a CORS proxy.
You can also easily deploy your own proxy to Heroku in just 2-3 minutes, with 5 commands:
git clone https://github.com/Rob--W/cors-anywhere.git
cd cors-anywhere/
npm install
heroku create
git push heroku master
After running those commands, you’ll end up with your own CORS Anywhere server running at, for example, https://cryptic-headland-94862.herokuapp.com/.
Prefix your request URL with your proxy URL; for example:
https://cryptic-headland-94862.herokuapp.com/https://example.com
Adding the proxy URL as a prefix causes the request to get made through your proxy, which:
Forwards the request to https://example.com.
Receives the response from https://example.com.
Adds the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to the response.
Passes that response, with that added header, back to the requesting frontend code.
The browser then allows the frontend code to access the response, because that response with the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header is what the browser sees.
This works even if the request is one that triggers browsers to do a CORS preflight OPTIONS request, because in that case, the proxy also sends back the Access-Control-Allow-Headers and Access-Control-Allow-Methods headers needed to make the preflight successful.
I can hit this endpoint, http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts?number=99 via Postman
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Access_control_CORS explains why it is that even though you can access the response with Postman, browsers won’t let you access the response cross-origin from frontend JavaScript code running in a web app unless the response includes an Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header.
http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts?number=99 has no Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header, so there’s no way your frontend code can access the response cross-origin.
Your browser can get the response fine and you can see it in Postman and even in browser devtools—but that doesn’t mean browsers expose it to your code. They won’t, because it has no Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header. So you must instead use a proxy to get it.
The proxy makes the request to that site, gets the response, adds the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header and any other CORS headers needed, then passes that back to your requesting code. And that response with the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header added is what the browser sees, so the browser lets your frontend code actually access the response.
So I am trying to pass in an object, to my Fetch which will disable CORS
You don’t want to do that. To be clear, when you say you want to “disable CORS” it seems you actually mean you want to disable the same-origin policy. CORS itself is actually a way to do that — CORS is a way to loosen the same-origin policy, not a way to restrict it.
But anyway, it’s true you can—in your local environment—do suff like give a browser runtime flags to disable security and run insecurely, or you can install a browser extension locally to get around the same-origin policy, but all that does is change the situation just for you locally.
No matter what you change locally, anybody else trying to use your app is still going to run into the same-origin policy, and there’s no way you can disable that for other users of your app.
You most likely never want to use mode: 'no-cors' in practice except in a few limited cases, and even then only if you know exactly what you’re doing and what the effects are. That’s because what setting mode: 'no-cors' actually says to the browser is, “Block my frontend JavaScript code from looking into the contents of the response body and headers under all circumstances.” In most cases that’s obviously really not what you want.
As far as the cases when you would want to consider using mode: 'no-cors', see the answer at What limitations apply to opaque responses? for the details. The gist of it is:
In the limited case when you’re using JavaScript to put content from another origin into a <script>, <link rel=stylesheet>, <img>, <video>, <audio>, <object>, <embed>, or <iframe> element (which works because embedding of resources cross-origin is allowed for those)—but for some reason you don’t want to/can’t do that just by having the markup of the document use the resource URL as the href or src attribute for the element.
When the only thing you want to do with a resource is to cache it. As alluded to in What limitations apply to opaque responses?, in practice the scenario that’s for is when you’re using Service Workers, in which case the API that’s relevant is the Cache Storage API.
But even in those limited cases, there are some important gotchas to be aware of; see the answer at What limitations apply to opaque responses? for the details.
I have also tried to pass in the object { mode: 'opaque'}
There is no 'opaque' request mode — opaque is instead just a property of the response, and browsers set that opaque property on responses from requests sent with no-cors mode.
But incidentally the word opaque is a pretty explicit signal about the nature of the response you end up with: “opaque” means you can’t see into any of its details; it blocks you from seeing.
If you are trying to address this issue temporarily on your localhost, you can use this chrome extension : Allow CORS Access-Control-Allow-Origin
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/allow-cors-access-control/lhobafahddgcelffkeicbaginigeejlf
If you are using Express as back-end you just have to install cors and import and use it in app.use(cors());.
If it is not resolved then try switching ports.
It will surely resolve after switching ports
So if you're like me and developing a website on localhost where you're trying to fetch data from Laravel API and use it in your Vue front-end, and you see this problem, here is how I solved it:
In your Laravel project, run command php artisan make:middleware Cors. This will create app/Http/Middleware/Cors.php for you.
Add the following code inside the handles function in Cors.php:
return $next($request)
->header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')
->header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS');
In app/Http/kernel.php, add the following entry in $routeMiddleware array:
‘cors’ => \App\Http\Middleware\Cors::class
(There would be other entries in the array like auth, guest etc. Also make sure you're doing this in app/Http/kernel.php because there is another kernel.php too in Laravel)
Add this middleware on route registration for all the routes where you want to allow access, like this:
Route::group(['middleware' => 'cors'], function () {
Route::get('getData', 'v1\MyController#getData');
Route::get('getData2', 'v1\MyController#getData2');
});
In Vue front-end, make sure you call this API in mounted() function and not in data(). Also make sure you use http:// or https:// with the URL in your fetch() call.
Full credits to Pete Houston's blog article.
You can also set up a reverse proxy which adds the CORS headers using a self-hosted CORS Anywhere or Just CORS if you want a managed solution.
https://justcors.com/<id>/<your-requested-resource>
http://cors-anywhere.com/<your-requested-resource>
Very easy solution (2 min to config) is to use local-ssl-proxy package from npm
The usage is straight pretty forward:
1. Install the package:
npm install -g local-ssl-proxy
2. While running your local-server mask it with the local-ssl-proxy --source 9001 --target 9000
P.S: Replace --target 9000 with the -- "number of your port" and --source 9001 with --source "number of your port +1"
Solution for me was to just do it server side
I used the C# WebClient library to get the data (in my case it was image data) and send it back to the client. There's probably something very similar in your chosen server-side language.
//Server side, api controller
[Route("api/ItemImage/GetItemImageFromURL")]
public IActionResult GetItemImageFromURL([FromQuery] string url)
{
ItemImage image = new ItemImage();
using(WebClient client = new WebClient()){
image.Bytes = client.DownloadData(url);
return Ok(image);
}
}
You can tweak it to whatever your own use case is. The main point is client.DownloadData() worked without any CORS errors. Typically CORS issues are only between websites, hence it being okay to make 'cross-site' requests from your server.
Then the React fetch call is as simple as:
//React component
fetch(`api/ItemImage/GetItemImageFromURL?url=${imageURL}`, {
method: 'GET',
})
.then(resp => resp.json() as Promise<ItemImage>)
.then(imgResponse => {
// Do more stuff....
)}
I had a similar problem with my browser debugger saying my response.body was null but fiddler and the developer tools show it as populated that turned out to be basically the same scenario as this. I was using a local Angular application hitting a Web Api service running on IISExpress. I fixed it by following the steps outlined here to find the correct applicationhost.config file to add a Access-Control-Allow-Origin header like so:
<customHeaders>
<clear />
<add name="X-Powered-By" value="ASP.NET" />
<add name="Access-Control-Allow-Origin" value="*" />
<add name="Access-Control-Allow-Headers" value="Content-Type" />
</customHeaders>
If all the above solutions don't work, probably it's because of the file permissions as sometimes even if you have fixed the non-cors problem using Heroku or another way, it throws 403 forbidden error. Set the directory/file permissions like this:
Permissions and ownership errors
A 403 Forbidden error can also be caused by incorrect ownership or permissions on your web content files and folders.
Permissions
Rule of thumb for correct permissions:
Folders: 755
Static Content: 644
Dynamic Content: 700

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I can hit this endpoint, http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts?number=99 via Postman and it returns JSON
Additionally I am using create-react-app and would like to avoid setting up any server config.
In my client code I am trying to use fetch to do the same thing, but I get the error:
No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested
resource. Origin 'http://localhost:3000' is therefore not allowed
access. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's
mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.
So I am trying to pass in an object, to my Fetch which will disable CORS, like so:
fetch('http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts?number=99', { mode: 'no-cors'})
.then(blob => blob.json())
.then(data => {
console.table(data);
return data;
})
.catch(e => {
console.log(e);
return e;
});
Interestingly enough the error I get is actually a syntax error with this function. I am not sure my actual fetch is broken, because when I remove the { mode: 'no-cors' } object, and supply it with a different URL it works just fine.
I have also tried to pass in the object { mode: 'opaque'} , but this returns the original error from above.
I belive all I need to do is disable CORS.. What am I missing?
mode: 'no-cors' won’t magically make things work. In fact it makes things worse, because one effect it has is to tell browsers, “Block my frontend JavaScript code from seeing contents of the response body and headers under all circumstances.” Of course you never want that.
What happens with cross-origin requests from frontend JavaScript is that browsers by default block frontend code from accessing resources cross-origin. If Access-Control-Allow-Origin is in a response, then browsers relax that blocking and allow your code to access the response.
But if a site sends no Access-Control-Allow-Origin in its responses, your frontend code can’t directly access responses from that site. In particular, you can’t fix it by specifying mode: 'no-cors' (in fact that’ll ensure your frontend code can’t access the response contents).
However, one thing that will work: if you send your request through a CORS proxy.
You can also easily deploy your own proxy to Heroku in just 2-3 minutes, with 5 commands:
git clone https://github.com/Rob--W/cors-anywhere.git
cd cors-anywhere/
npm install
heroku create
git push heroku master
After running those commands, you’ll end up with your own CORS Anywhere server running at, for example, https://cryptic-headland-94862.herokuapp.com/.
Prefix your request URL with your proxy URL; for example:
https://cryptic-headland-94862.herokuapp.com/https://example.com
Adding the proxy URL as a prefix causes the request to get made through your proxy, which:
Forwards the request to https://example.com.
Receives the response from https://example.com.
Adds the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to the response.
Passes that response, with that added header, back to the requesting frontend code.
The browser then allows the frontend code to access the response, because that response with the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header is what the browser sees.
This works even if the request is one that triggers browsers to do a CORS preflight OPTIONS request, because in that case, the proxy also sends back the Access-Control-Allow-Headers and Access-Control-Allow-Methods headers needed to make the preflight successful.
I can hit this endpoint, http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts?number=99 via Postman
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Access_control_CORS explains why it is that even though you can access the response with Postman, browsers won’t let you access the response cross-origin from frontend JavaScript code running in a web app unless the response includes an Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header.
http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts?number=99 has no Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header, so there’s no way your frontend code can access the response cross-origin.
Your browser can get the response fine and you can see it in Postman and even in browser devtools—but that doesn’t mean browsers expose it to your code. They won’t, because it has no Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header. So you must instead use a proxy to get it.
The proxy makes the request to that site, gets the response, adds the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header and any other CORS headers needed, then passes that back to your requesting code. And that response with the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header added is what the browser sees, so the browser lets your frontend code actually access the response.
So I am trying to pass in an object, to my Fetch which will disable CORS
You don’t want to do that. To be clear, when you say you want to “disable CORS” it seems you actually mean you want to disable the same-origin policy. CORS itself is actually a way to do that — CORS is a way to loosen the same-origin policy, not a way to restrict it.
But anyway, it’s true you can—in your local environment—do suff like give a browser runtime flags to disable security and run insecurely, or you can install a browser extension locally to get around the same-origin policy, but all that does is change the situation just for you locally.
No matter what you change locally, anybody else trying to use your app is still going to run into the same-origin policy, and there’s no way you can disable that for other users of your app.
You most likely never want to use mode: 'no-cors' in practice except in a few limited cases, and even then only if you know exactly what you’re doing and what the effects are. That’s because what setting mode: 'no-cors' actually says to the browser is, “Block my frontend JavaScript code from looking into the contents of the response body and headers under all circumstances.” In most cases that’s obviously really not what you want.
As far as the cases when you would want to consider using mode: 'no-cors', see the answer at What limitations apply to opaque responses? for the details. The gist of it is:
In the limited case when you’re using JavaScript to put content from another origin into a <script>, <link rel=stylesheet>, <img>, <video>, <audio>, <object>, <embed>, or <iframe> element (which works because embedding of resources cross-origin is allowed for those)—but for some reason you don’t want to/can’t do that just by having the markup of the document use the resource URL as the href or src attribute for the element.
When the only thing you want to do with a resource is to cache it. As alluded to in What limitations apply to opaque responses?, in practice the scenario that’s for is when you’re using Service Workers, in which case the API that’s relevant is the Cache Storage API.
But even in those limited cases, there are some important gotchas to be aware of; see the answer at What limitations apply to opaque responses? for the details.
I have also tried to pass in the object { mode: 'opaque'}
There is no 'opaque' request mode — opaque is instead just a property of the response, and browsers set that opaque property on responses from requests sent with no-cors mode.
But incidentally the word opaque is a pretty explicit signal about the nature of the response you end up with: “opaque” means you can’t see into any of its details; it blocks you from seeing.
If you are trying to address this issue temporarily on your localhost, you can use this chrome extension : Allow CORS Access-Control-Allow-Origin
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/allow-cors-access-control/lhobafahddgcelffkeicbaginigeejlf
If you are using Express as back-end you just have to install cors and import and use it in app.use(cors());.
If it is not resolved then try switching ports.
It will surely resolve after switching ports
So if you're like me and developing a website on localhost where you're trying to fetch data from Laravel API and use it in your Vue front-end, and you see this problem, here is how I solved it:
In your Laravel project, run command php artisan make:middleware Cors. This will create app/Http/Middleware/Cors.php for you.
Add the following code inside the handles function in Cors.php:
return $next($request)
->header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')
->header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS');
In app/Http/kernel.php, add the following entry in $routeMiddleware array:
‘cors’ => \App\Http\Middleware\Cors::class
(There would be other entries in the array like auth, guest etc. Also make sure you're doing this in app/Http/kernel.php because there is another kernel.php too in Laravel)
Add this middleware on route registration for all the routes where you want to allow access, like this:
Route::group(['middleware' => 'cors'], function () {
Route::get('getData', 'v1\MyController#getData');
Route::get('getData2', 'v1\MyController#getData2');
});
In Vue front-end, make sure you call this API in mounted() function and not in data(). Also make sure you use http:// or https:// with the URL in your fetch() call.
Full credits to Pete Houston's blog article.
You can also set up a reverse proxy which adds the CORS headers using a self-hosted CORS Anywhere or Just CORS if you want a managed solution.
https://justcors.com/<id>/<your-requested-resource>
http://cors-anywhere.com/<your-requested-resource>
Very easy solution (2 min to config) is to use local-ssl-proxy package from npm
The usage is straight pretty forward:
1. Install the package:
npm install -g local-ssl-proxy
2. While running your local-server mask it with the local-ssl-proxy --source 9001 --target 9000
P.S: Replace --target 9000 with the -- "number of your port" and --source 9001 with --source "number of your port +1"
Solution for me was to just do it server side
I used the C# WebClient library to get the data (in my case it was image data) and send it back to the client. There's probably something very similar in your chosen server-side language.
//Server side, api controller
[Route("api/ItemImage/GetItemImageFromURL")]
public IActionResult GetItemImageFromURL([FromQuery] string url)
{
ItemImage image = new ItemImage();
using(WebClient client = new WebClient()){
image.Bytes = client.DownloadData(url);
return Ok(image);
}
}
You can tweak it to whatever your own use case is. The main point is client.DownloadData() worked without any CORS errors. Typically CORS issues are only between websites, hence it being okay to make 'cross-site' requests from your server.
Then the React fetch call is as simple as:
//React component
fetch(`api/ItemImage/GetItemImageFromURL?url=${imageURL}`, {
method: 'GET',
})
.then(resp => resp.json() as Promise<ItemImage>)
.then(imgResponse => {
// Do more stuff....
)}
I had a similar problem with my browser debugger saying my response.body was null but fiddler and the developer tools show it as populated that turned out to be basically the same scenario as this. I was using a local Angular application hitting a Web Api service running on IISExpress. I fixed it by following the steps outlined here to find the correct applicationhost.config file to add a Access-Control-Allow-Origin header like so:
<customHeaders>
<clear />
<add name="X-Powered-By" value="ASP.NET" />
<add name="Access-Control-Allow-Origin" value="*" />
<add name="Access-Control-Allow-Headers" value="Content-Type" />
</customHeaders>
If all the above solutions don't work, probably it's because of the file permissions as sometimes even if you have fixed the non-cors problem using Heroku or another way, it throws 403 forbidden error. Set the directory/file permissions like this:
Permissions and ownership errors
A 403 Forbidden error can also be caused by incorrect ownership or permissions on your web content files and folders.
Permissions
Rule of thumb for correct permissions:
Folders: 755
Static Content: 644
Dynamic Content: 700

Ajax CORS Issue: If I use no-cors, the Authorization header disappears [duplicate]

I can hit this endpoint, http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts?number=99 via Postman and it returns JSON
Additionally I am using create-react-app and would like to avoid setting up any server config.
In my client code I am trying to use fetch to do the same thing, but I get the error:
No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested
resource. Origin 'http://localhost:3000' is therefore not allowed
access. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's
mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.
So I am trying to pass in an object, to my Fetch which will disable CORS, like so:
fetch('http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts?number=99', { mode: 'no-cors'})
.then(blob => blob.json())
.then(data => {
console.table(data);
return data;
})
.catch(e => {
console.log(e);
return e;
});
Interestingly enough the error I get is actually a syntax error with this function. I am not sure my actual fetch is broken, because when I remove the { mode: 'no-cors' } object, and supply it with a different URL it works just fine.
I have also tried to pass in the object { mode: 'opaque'} , but this returns the original error from above.
I belive all I need to do is disable CORS.. What am I missing?
mode: 'no-cors' won’t magically make things work. In fact it makes things worse, because one effect it has is to tell browsers, “Block my frontend JavaScript code from seeing contents of the response body and headers under all circumstances.” Of course you never want that.
What happens with cross-origin requests from frontend JavaScript is that browsers by default block frontend code from accessing resources cross-origin. If Access-Control-Allow-Origin is in a response, then browsers relax that blocking and allow your code to access the response.
But if a site sends no Access-Control-Allow-Origin in its responses, your frontend code can’t directly access responses from that site. In particular, you can’t fix it by specifying mode: 'no-cors' (in fact that’ll ensure your frontend code can’t access the response contents).
However, one thing that will work: if you send your request through a CORS proxy.
You can also easily deploy your own proxy to Heroku in just 2-3 minutes, with 5 commands:
git clone https://github.com/Rob--W/cors-anywhere.git
cd cors-anywhere/
npm install
heroku create
git push heroku master
After running those commands, you’ll end up with your own CORS Anywhere server running at, for example, https://cryptic-headland-94862.herokuapp.com/.
Prefix your request URL with your proxy URL; for example:
https://cryptic-headland-94862.herokuapp.com/https://example.com
Adding the proxy URL as a prefix causes the request to get made through your proxy, which:
Forwards the request to https://example.com.
Receives the response from https://example.com.
Adds the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to the response.
Passes that response, with that added header, back to the requesting frontend code.
The browser then allows the frontend code to access the response, because that response with the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header is what the browser sees.
This works even if the request is one that triggers browsers to do a CORS preflight OPTIONS request, because in that case, the proxy also sends back the Access-Control-Allow-Headers and Access-Control-Allow-Methods headers needed to make the preflight successful.
I can hit this endpoint, http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts?number=99 via Postman
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Access_control_CORS explains why it is that even though you can access the response with Postman, browsers won’t let you access the response cross-origin from frontend JavaScript code running in a web app unless the response includes an Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header.
http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts?number=99 has no Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header, so there’s no way your frontend code can access the response cross-origin.
Your browser can get the response fine and you can see it in Postman and even in browser devtools—but that doesn’t mean browsers expose it to your code. They won’t, because it has no Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header. So you must instead use a proxy to get it.
The proxy makes the request to that site, gets the response, adds the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header and any other CORS headers needed, then passes that back to your requesting code. And that response with the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header added is what the browser sees, so the browser lets your frontend code actually access the response.
So I am trying to pass in an object, to my Fetch which will disable CORS
You don’t want to do that. To be clear, when you say you want to “disable CORS” it seems you actually mean you want to disable the same-origin policy. CORS itself is actually a way to do that — CORS is a way to loosen the same-origin policy, not a way to restrict it.
But anyway, it’s true you can—in your local environment—do suff like give a browser runtime flags to disable security and run insecurely, or you can install a browser extension locally to get around the same-origin policy, but all that does is change the situation just for you locally.
No matter what you change locally, anybody else trying to use your app is still going to run into the same-origin policy, and there’s no way you can disable that for other users of your app.
You most likely never want to use mode: 'no-cors' in practice except in a few limited cases, and even then only if you know exactly what you’re doing and what the effects are. That’s because what setting mode: 'no-cors' actually says to the browser is, “Block my frontend JavaScript code from looking into the contents of the response body and headers under all circumstances.” In most cases that’s obviously really not what you want.
As far as the cases when you would want to consider using mode: 'no-cors', see the answer at What limitations apply to opaque responses? for the details. The gist of it is:
In the limited case when you’re using JavaScript to put content from another origin into a <script>, <link rel=stylesheet>, <img>, <video>, <audio>, <object>, <embed>, or <iframe> element (which works because embedding of resources cross-origin is allowed for those)—but for some reason you don’t want to/can’t do that just by having the markup of the document use the resource URL as the href or src attribute for the element.
When the only thing you want to do with a resource is to cache it. As alluded to in What limitations apply to opaque responses?, in practice the scenario that’s for is when you’re using Service Workers, in which case the API that’s relevant is the Cache Storage API.
But even in those limited cases, there are some important gotchas to be aware of; see the answer at What limitations apply to opaque responses? for the details.
I have also tried to pass in the object { mode: 'opaque'}
There is no 'opaque' request mode — opaque is instead just a property of the response, and browsers set that opaque property on responses from requests sent with no-cors mode.
But incidentally the word opaque is a pretty explicit signal about the nature of the response you end up with: “opaque” means you can’t see into any of its details; it blocks you from seeing.
If you are trying to address this issue temporarily on your localhost, you can use this chrome extension : Allow CORS Access-Control-Allow-Origin
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/allow-cors-access-control/lhobafahddgcelffkeicbaginigeejlf
If you are using Express as back-end you just have to install cors and import and use it in app.use(cors());.
If it is not resolved then try switching ports.
It will surely resolve after switching ports
So if you're like me and developing a website on localhost where you're trying to fetch data from Laravel API and use it in your Vue front-end, and you see this problem, here is how I solved it:
In your Laravel project, run command php artisan make:middleware Cors. This will create app/Http/Middleware/Cors.php for you.
Add the following code inside the handles function in Cors.php:
return $next($request)
->header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')
->header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS');
In app/Http/kernel.php, add the following entry in $routeMiddleware array:
‘cors’ => \App\Http\Middleware\Cors::class
(There would be other entries in the array like auth, guest etc. Also make sure you're doing this in app/Http/kernel.php because there is another kernel.php too in Laravel)
Add this middleware on route registration for all the routes where you want to allow access, like this:
Route::group(['middleware' => 'cors'], function () {
Route::get('getData', 'v1\MyController#getData');
Route::get('getData2', 'v1\MyController#getData2');
});
In Vue front-end, make sure you call this API in mounted() function and not in data(). Also make sure you use http:// or https:// with the URL in your fetch() call.
Full credits to Pete Houston's blog article.
You can also set up a reverse proxy which adds the CORS headers using a self-hosted CORS Anywhere or Just CORS if you want a managed solution.
https://justcors.com/<id>/<your-requested-resource>
http://cors-anywhere.com/<your-requested-resource>
Very easy solution (2 min to config) is to use local-ssl-proxy package from npm
The usage is straight pretty forward:
1. Install the package:
npm install -g local-ssl-proxy
2. While running your local-server mask it with the local-ssl-proxy --source 9001 --target 9000
P.S: Replace --target 9000 with the -- "number of your port" and --source 9001 with --source "number of your port +1"
Solution for me was to just do it server side
I used the C# WebClient library to get the data (in my case it was image data) and send it back to the client. There's probably something very similar in your chosen server-side language.
//Server side, api controller
[Route("api/ItemImage/GetItemImageFromURL")]
public IActionResult GetItemImageFromURL([FromQuery] string url)
{
ItemImage image = new ItemImage();
using(WebClient client = new WebClient()){
image.Bytes = client.DownloadData(url);
return Ok(image);
}
}
You can tweak it to whatever your own use case is. The main point is client.DownloadData() worked without any CORS errors. Typically CORS issues are only between websites, hence it being okay to make 'cross-site' requests from your server.
Then the React fetch call is as simple as:
//React component
fetch(`api/ItemImage/GetItemImageFromURL?url=${imageURL}`, {
method: 'GET',
})
.then(resp => resp.json() as Promise<ItemImage>)
.then(imgResponse => {
// Do more stuff....
)}
I had a similar problem with my browser debugger saying my response.body was null but fiddler and the developer tools show it as populated that turned out to be basically the same scenario as this. I was using a local Angular application hitting a Web Api service running on IISExpress. I fixed it by following the steps outlined here to find the correct applicationhost.config file to add a Access-Control-Allow-Origin header like so:
<customHeaders>
<clear />
<add name="X-Powered-By" value="ASP.NET" />
<add name="Access-Control-Allow-Origin" value="*" />
<add name="Access-Control-Allow-Headers" value="Content-Type" />
</customHeaders>
If all the above solutions don't work, probably it's because of the file permissions as sometimes even if you have fixed the non-cors problem using Heroku or another way, it throws 403 forbidden error. Set the directory/file permissions like this:
Permissions and ownership errors
A 403 Forbidden error can also be caused by incorrect ownership or permissions on your web content files and folders.
Permissions
Rule of thumb for correct permissions:
Folders: 755
Static Content: 644
Dynamic Content: 700

POST request is working in postman but not browser [duplicate]

I can hit this endpoint, http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts?number=99 via Postman and it returns JSON
Additionally I am using create-react-app and would like to avoid setting up any server config.
In my client code I am trying to use fetch to do the same thing, but I get the error:
No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested
resource. Origin 'http://localhost:3000' is therefore not allowed
access. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's
mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.
So I am trying to pass in an object, to my Fetch which will disable CORS, like so:
fetch('http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts?number=99', { mode: 'no-cors'})
.then(blob => blob.json())
.then(data => {
console.table(data);
return data;
})
.catch(e => {
console.log(e);
return e;
});
Interestingly enough the error I get is actually a syntax error with this function. I am not sure my actual fetch is broken, because when I remove the { mode: 'no-cors' } object, and supply it with a different URL it works just fine.
I have also tried to pass in the object { mode: 'opaque'} , but this returns the original error from above.
I belive all I need to do is disable CORS.. What am I missing?
mode: 'no-cors' won’t magically make things work. In fact it makes things worse, because one effect it has is to tell browsers, “Block my frontend JavaScript code from seeing contents of the response body and headers under all circumstances.” Of course you never want that.
What happens with cross-origin requests from frontend JavaScript is that browsers by default block frontend code from accessing resources cross-origin. If Access-Control-Allow-Origin is in a response, then browsers relax that blocking and allow your code to access the response.
But if a site sends no Access-Control-Allow-Origin in its responses, your frontend code can’t directly access responses from that site. In particular, you can’t fix it by specifying mode: 'no-cors' (in fact that’ll ensure your frontend code can’t access the response contents).
However, one thing that will work: if you send your request through a CORS proxy.
You can also easily deploy your own proxy to Heroku in just 2-3 minutes, with 5 commands:
git clone https://github.com/Rob--W/cors-anywhere.git
cd cors-anywhere/
npm install
heroku create
git push heroku master
After running those commands, you’ll end up with your own CORS Anywhere server running at, for example, https://cryptic-headland-94862.herokuapp.com/.
Prefix your request URL with your proxy URL; for example:
https://cryptic-headland-94862.herokuapp.com/https://example.com
Adding the proxy URL as a prefix causes the request to get made through your proxy, which:
Forwards the request to https://example.com.
Receives the response from https://example.com.
Adds the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to the response.
Passes that response, with that added header, back to the requesting frontend code.
The browser then allows the frontend code to access the response, because that response with the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header is what the browser sees.
This works even if the request is one that triggers browsers to do a CORS preflight OPTIONS request, because in that case, the proxy also sends back the Access-Control-Allow-Headers and Access-Control-Allow-Methods headers needed to make the preflight successful.
I can hit this endpoint, http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts?number=99 via Postman
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Access_control_CORS explains why it is that even though you can access the response with Postman, browsers won’t let you access the response cross-origin from frontend JavaScript code running in a web app unless the response includes an Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header.
http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts?number=99 has no Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header, so there’s no way your frontend code can access the response cross-origin.
Your browser can get the response fine and you can see it in Postman and even in browser devtools—but that doesn’t mean browsers expose it to your code. They won’t, because it has no Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header. So you must instead use a proxy to get it.
The proxy makes the request to that site, gets the response, adds the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header and any other CORS headers needed, then passes that back to your requesting code. And that response with the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header added is what the browser sees, so the browser lets your frontend code actually access the response.
So I am trying to pass in an object, to my Fetch which will disable CORS
You don’t want to do that. To be clear, when you say you want to “disable CORS” it seems you actually mean you want to disable the same-origin policy. CORS itself is actually a way to do that — CORS is a way to loosen the same-origin policy, not a way to restrict it.
But anyway, it’s true you can—in your local environment—do suff like give a browser runtime flags to disable security and run insecurely, or you can install a browser extension locally to get around the same-origin policy, but all that does is change the situation just for you locally.
No matter what you change locally, anybody else trying to use your app is still going to run into the same-origin policy, and there’s no way you can disable that for other users of your app.
You most likely never want to use mode: 'no-cors' in practice except in a few limited cases, and even then only if you know exactly what you’re doing and what the effects are. That’s because what setting mode: 'no-cors' actually says to the browser is, “Block my frontend JavaScript code from looking into the contents of the response body and headers under all circumstances.” In most cases that’s obviously really not what you want.
As far as the cases when you would want to consider using mode: 'no-cors', see the answer at What limitations apply to opaque responses? for the details. The gist of it is:
In the limited case when you’re using JavaScript to put content from another origin into a <script>, <link rel=stylesheet>, <img>, <video>, <audio>, <object>, <embed>, or <iframe> element (which works because embedding of resources cross-origin is allowed for those)—but for some reason you don’t want to/can’t do that just by having the markup of the document use the resource URL as the href or src attribute for the element.
When the only thing you want to do with a resource is to cache it. As alluded to in What limitations apply to opaque responses?, in practice the scenario that’s for is when you’re using Service Workers, in which case the API that’s relevant is the Cache Storage API.
But even in those limited cases, there are some important gotchas to be aware of; see the answer at What limitations apply to opaque responses? for the details.
I have also tried to pass in the object { mode: 'opaque'}
There is no 'opaque' request mode — opaque is instead just a property of the response, and browsers set that opaque property on responses from requests sent with no-cors mode.
But incidentally the word opaque is a pretty explicit signal about the nature of the response you end up with: “opaque” means you can’t see into any of its details; it blocks you from seeing.
If you are trying to address this issue temporarily on your localhost, you can use this chrome extension : Allow CORS Access-Control-Allow-Origin
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/allow-cors-access-control/lhobafahddgcelffkeicbaginigeejlf
If you are using Express as back-end you just have to install cors and import and use it in app.use(cors());.
If it is not resolved then try switching ports.
It will surely resolve after switching ports
So if you're like me and developing a website on localhost where you're trying to fetch data from Laravel API and use it in your Vue front-end, and you see this problem, here is how I solved it:
In your Laravel project, run command php artisan make:middleware Cors. This will create app/Http/Middleware/Cors.php for you.
Add the following code inside the handles function in Cors.php:
return $next($request)
->header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')
->header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS');
In app/Http/kernel.php, add the following entry in $routeMiddleware array:
‘cors’ => \App\Http\Middleware\Cors::class
(There would be other entries in the array like auth, guest etc. Also make sure you're doing this in app/Http/kernel.php because there is another kernel.php too in Laravel)
Add this middleware on route registration for all the routes where you want to allow access, like this:
Route::group(['middleware' => 'cors'], function () {
Route::get('getData', 'v1\MyController#getData');
Route::get('getData2', 'v1\MyController#getData2');
});
In Vue front-end, make sure you call this API in mounted() function and not in data(). Also make sure you use http:// or https:// with the URL in your fetch() call.
Full credits to Pete Houston's blog article.
You can also set up a reverse proxy which adds the CORS headers using a self-hosted CORS Anywhere or Just CORS if you want a managed solution.
https://justcors.com/<id>/<your-requested-resource>
http://cors-anywhere.com/<your-requested-resource>
Very easy solution (2 min to config) is to use local-ssl-proxy package from npm
The usage is straight pretty forward:
1. Install the package:
npm install -g local-ssl-proxy
2. While running your local-server mask it with the local-ssl-proxy --source 9001 --target 9000
P.S: Replace --target 9000 with the -- "number of your port" and --source 9001 with --source "number of your port +1"
Solution for me was to just do it server side
I used the C# WebClient library to get the data (in my case it was image data) and send it back to the client. There's probably something very similar in your chosen server-side language.
//Server side, api controller
[Route("api/ItemImage/GetItemImageFromURL")]
public IActionResult GetItemImageFromURL([FromQuery] string url)
{
ItemImage image = new ItemImage();
using(WebClient client = new WebClient()){
image.Bytes = client.DownloadData(url);
return Ok(image);
}
}
You can tweak it to whatever your own use case is. The main point is client.DownloadData() worked without any CORS errors. Typically CORS issues are only between websites, hence it being okay to make 'cross-site' requests from your server.
Then the React fetch call is as simple as:
//React component
fetch(`api/ItemImage/GetItemImageFromURL?url=${imageURL}`, {
method: 'GET',
})
.then(resp => resp.json() as Promise<ItemImage>)
.then(imgResponse => {
// Do more stuff....
)}
I had a similar problem with my browser debugger saying my response.body was null but fiddler and the developer tools show it as populated that turned out to be basically the same scenario as this. I was using a local Angular application hitting a Web Api service running on IISExpress. I fixed it by following the steps outlined here to find the correct applicationhost.config file to add a Access-Control-Allow-Origin header like so:
<customHeaders>
<clear />
<add name="X-Powered-By" value="ASP.NET" />
<add name="Access-Control-Allow-Origin" value="*" />
<add name="Access-Control-Allow-Headers" value="Content-Type" />
</customHeaders>
If all the above solutions don't work, probably it's because of the file permissions as sometimes even if you have fixed the non-cors problem using Heroku or another way, it throws 403 forbidden error. Set the directory/file permissions like this:
Permissions and ownership errors
A 403 Forbidden error can also be caused by incorrect ownership or permissions on your web content files and folders.
Permissions
Rule of thumb for correct permissions:
Folders: 755
Static Content: 644
Dynamic Content: 700

Trying to use fetch and pass in mode: no-cors

I can hit this endpoint, http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts?number=99 via Postman and it returns JSON
Additionally I am using create-react-app and would like to avoid setting up any server config.
In my client code I am trying to use fetch to do the same thing, but I get the error:
No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested
resource. Origin 'http://localhost:3000' is therefore not allowed
access. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's
mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.
So I am trying to pass in an object, to my Fetch which will disable CORS, like so:
fetch('http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts?number=99', { mode: 'no-cors'})
.then(blob => blob.json())
.then(data => {
console.table(data);
return data;
})
.catch(e => {
console.log(e);
return e;
});
Interestingly enough the error I get is actually a syntax error with this function. I am not sure my actual fetch is broken, because when I remove the { mode: 'no-cors' } object, and supply it with a different URL it works just fine.
I have also tried to pass in the object { mode: 'opaque'} , but this returns the original error from above.
I belive all I need to do is disable CORS.. What am I missing?
mode: 'no-cors' won’t magically make things work. In fact it makes things worse, because one effect it has is to tell browsers, “Block my frontend JavaScript code from seeing contents of the response body and headers under all circumstances.” Of course you never want that.
What happens with cross-origin requests from frontend JavaScript is that browsers by default block frontend code from accessing resources cross-origin. If Access-Control-Allow-Origin is in a response, then browsers relax that blocking and allow your code to access the response.
But if a site sends no Access-Control-Allow-Origin in its responses, your frontend code can’t directly access responses from that site. In particular, you can’t fix it by specifying mode: 'no-cors' (in fact that’ll ensure your frontend code can’t access the response contents).
However, one thing that will work: if you send your request through a CORS proxy.
You can also easily deploy your own proxy to Heroku in just 2-3 minutes, with 5 commands:
git clone https://github.com/Rob--W/cors-anywhere.git
cd cors-anywhere/
npm install
heroku create
git push heroku master
After running those commands, you’ll end up with your own CORS Anywhere server running at, for example, https://cryptic-headland-94862.herokuapp.com/.
Prefix your request URL with your proxy URL; for example:
https://cryptic-headland-94862.herokuapp.com/https://example.com
Adding the proxy URL as a prefix causes the request to get made through your proxy, which:
Forwards the request to https://example.com.
Receives the response from https://example.com.
Adds the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to the response.
Passes that response, with that added header, back to the requesting frontend code.
The browser then allows the frontend code to access the response, because that response with the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header is what the browser sees.
This works even if the request is one that triggers browsers to do a CORS preflight OPTIONS request, because in that case, the proxy also sends back the Access-Control-Allow-Headers and Access-Control-Allow-Methods headers needed to make the preflight successful.
I can hit this endpoint, http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts?number=99 via Postman
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Access_control_CORS explains why it is that even though you can access the response with Postman, browsers won’t let you access the response cross-origin from frontend JavaScript code running in a web app unless the response includes an Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header.
http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts?number=99 has no Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header, so there’s no way your frontend code can access the response cross-origin.
Your browser can get the response fine and you can see it in Postman and even in browser devtools—but that doesn’t mean browsers expose it to your code. They won’t, because it has no Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header. So you must instead use a proxy to get it.
The proxy makes the request to that site, gets the response, adds the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header and any other CORS headers needed, then passes that back to your requesting code. And that response with the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header added is what the browser sees, so the browser lets your frontend code actually access the response.
So I am trying to pass in an object, to my Fetch which will disable CORS
You don’t want to do that. To be clear, when you say you want to “disable CORS” it seems you actually mean you want to disable the same-origin policy. CORS itself is actually a way to do that — CORS is a way to loosen the same-origin policy, not a way to restrict it.
But anyway, it’s true you can—in your local environment—do suff like give a browser runtime flags to disable security and run insecurely, or you can install a browser extension locally to get around the same-origin policy, but all that does is change the situation just for you locally.
No matter what you change locally, anybody else trying to use your app is still going to run into the same-origin policy, and there’s no way you can disable that for other users of your app.
You most likely never want to use mode: 'no-cors' in practice except in a few limited cases, and even then only if you know exactly what you’re doing and what the effects are. That’s because what setting mode: 'no-cors' actually says to the browser is, “Block my frontend JavaScript code from looking into the contents of the response body and headers under all circumstances.” In most cases that’s obviously really not what you want.
As far as the cases when you would want to consider using mode: 'no-cors', see the answer at What limitations apply to opaque responses? for the details. The gist of it is:
In the limited case when you’re using JavaScript to put content from another origin into a <script>, <link rel=stylesheet>, <img>, <video>, <audio>, <object>, <embed>, or <iframe> element (which works because embedding of resources cross-origin is allowed for those)—but for some reason you don’t want to/can’t do that just by having the markup of the document use the resource URL as the href or src attribute for the element.
When the only thing you want to do with a resource is to cache it. As alluded to in What limitations apply to opaque responses?, in practice the scenario that’s for is when you’re using Service Workers, in which case the API that’s relevant is the Cache Storage API.
But even in those limited cases, there are some important gotchas to be aware of; see the answer at What limitations apply to opaque responses? for the details.
I have also tried to pass in the object { mode: 'opaque'}
There is no 'opaque' request mode — opaque is instead just a property of the response, and browsers set that opaque property on responses from requests sent with no-cors mode.
But incidentally the word opaque is a pretty explicit signal about the nature of the response you end up with: “opaque” means you can’t see into any of its details; it blocks you from seeing.
If you are trying to address this issue temporarily on your localhost, you can use this chrome extension : Allow CORS Access-Control-Allow-Origin
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/allow-cors-access-control/lhobafahddgcelffkeicbaginigeejlf
If you are using Express as back-end you just have to install cors and import and use it in app.use(cors());.
If it is not resolved then try switching ports.
It will surely resolve after switching ports
So if you're like me and developing a website on localhost where you're trying to fetch data from Laravel API and use it in your Vue front-end, and you see this problem, here is how I solved it:
In your Laravel project, run command php artisan make:middleware Cors. This will create app/Http/Middleware/Cors.php for you.
Add the following code inside the handles function in Cors.php:
return $next($request)
->header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')
->header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS');
In app/Http/kernel.php, add the following entry in $routeMiddleware array:
‘cors’ => \App\Http\Middleware\Cors::class
(There would be other entries in the array like auth, guest etc. Also make sure you're doing this in app/Http/kernel.php because there is another kernel.php too in Laravel)
Add this middleware on route registration for all the routes where you want to allow access, like this:
Route::group(['middleware' => 'cors'], function () {
Route::get('getData', 'v1\MyController#getData');
Route::get('getData2', 'v1\MyController#getData2');
});
In Vue front-end, make sure you call this API in mounted() function and not in data(). Also make sure you use http:// or https:// with the URL in your fetch() call.
Full credits to Pete Houston's blog article.
You can also set up a reverse proxy which adds the CORS headers using a self-hosted CORS Anywhere or Just CORS if you want a managed solution.
https://justcors.com/<id>/<your-requested-resource>
http://cors-anywhere.com/<your-requested-resource>
Very easy solution (2 min to config) is to use local-ssl-proxy package from npm
The usage is straight pretty forward:
1. Install the package:
npm install -g local-ssl-proxy
2. While running your local-server mask it with the local-ssl-proxy --source 9001 --target 9000
P.S: Replace --target 9000 with the -- "number of your port" and --source 9001 with --source "number of your port +1"
Solution for me was to just do it server side
I used the C# WebClient library to get the data (in my case it was image data) and send it back to the client. There's probably something very similar in your chosen server-side language.
//Server side, api controller
[Route("api/ItemImage/GetItemImageFromURL")]
public IActionResult GetItemImageFromURL([FromQuery] string url)
{
ItemImage image = new ItemImage();
using(WebClient client = new WebClient()){
image.Bytes = client.DownloadData(url);
return Ok(image);
}
}
You can tweak it to whatever your own use case is. The main point is client.DownloadData() worked without any CORS errors. Typically CORS issues are only between websites, hence it being okay to make 'cross-site' requests from your server.
Then the React fetch call is as simple as:
//React component
fetch(`api/ItemImage/GetItemImageFromURL?url=${imageURL}`, {
method: 'GET',
})
.then(resp => resp.json() as Promise<ItemImage>)
.then(imgResponse => {
// Do more stuff....
)}
I had a similar problem with my browser debugger saying my response.body was null but fiddler and the developer tools show it as populated that turned out to be basically the same scenario as this. I was using a local Angular application hitting a Web Api service running on IISExpress. I fixed it by following the steps outlined here to find the correct applicationhost.config file to add a Access-Control-Allow-Origin header like so:
<customHeaders>
<clear />
<add name="X-Powered-By" value="ASP.NET" />
<add name="Access-Control-Allow-Origin" value="*" />
<add name="Access-Control-Allow-Headers" value="Content-Type" />
</customHeaders>
If all the above solutions don't work, probably it's because of the file permissions as sometimes even if you have fixed the non-cors problem using Heroku or another way, it throws 403 forbidden error. Set the directory/file permissions like this:
Permissions and ownership errors
A 403 Forbidden error can also be caused by incorrect ownership or permissions on your web content files and folders.
Permissions
Rule of thumb for correct permissions:
Folders: 755
Static Content: 644
Dynamic Content: 700

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