I am using docker to run a front end react application and a node/express api.
The react app is running on localhost:3000 and the api is running on localhost:9000. They are both fully functioning and working apps. However when I try to make a rest call from the React app to http://localhost:9000/api/whatever I am getting the following error
XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://localhost:9000/api/schedule. No
Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested
resource. Origin 'http://localhost:3000' is therefore not allowed access.`
This is my server.js file for my express api :
const express = require('express');
const port = process.env.PORT || 9000;
const app = express();
require('./app/routes')(app);
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
// Website you wish to allow to connect
res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', 'http://localhost:3000');
// Request methods you wish to allow
res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET');
// Request headers you wish to allow
res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'X-Requested-With,content-type');
// Set to true if you need the website to include cookies in the requests sent
// to the API (e.g. in case you use sessions)
res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Credentials', true);
// Pass to next layer of middleware
next();
});
app.listen(port, () => {
console.log('listening on port : ' + port);
})
Not sure what I'm missing here.
Chrome network tab :
Request URL:http://localhost:9000/api/schedule
Request Method:GET
Status Code:200 OK
Remote Address:[::1]:9000
Response Headers
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Connection:keep-alive
Content-Length:86
Content-Type:application/json; charset=utf-8
Date:Mon, 10 Apr 2017 04:40:06 GMT
ETag:W/"56-l2wi6AdD2GGTOMvRjRYO96YmR0w"
X-Powered-By:Express
Request Headers
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Accept:application/json, text/plain, */*
Accept-Encoding:gzip, deflate, sdch, br
Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8
Connection:keep-alive
Host:localhost:9000
Origin:http://localhost:3000
Referer:http://localhost:3000/
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36
I have been able to do this before with the following configuration:
app.use((req, res, next) => {
const origin = req.get('origin');
// TODO Add origin validation
res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', origin);
res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Credentials', true);
res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET, POST, PUT, DELETE');
res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept, Authorization, Cache-Control, Pragma');
// intercept OPTIONS method
if (req.method === 'OPTIONS') {
res.sendStatus(204);
} else {
next();
}
});
As you can see in my case I was allowing more methods than only the GET one and added additional allowed headers (such as the Authorization one that I needed in this case), notice that in your case you specified only X-Requested-With and Content-Type, but you might as well need the Origin one if you want to validate the origin.
I am as well intercepting the OPTIONS request to avoid sending additional data in that case.