Angular CORS works with $http but not with $resource - angularjs

I am new to angular, using v1.6, I have implemented a basic service for GET requests to communicate with Jetty service on a different host.
After annotating my service endpoints with CrossBorderResourceSharing. I am able to use $http without issues and I can seen the CORS flag in chrome debugger as well.
However $resource does not work gives the CORS error and does not show the CORS flag in debugger either , I am not using any custom settings for both just the basic call.
Let me know if sharing code snippet would help.

You need to enable CORS in the server endpoint.
Add the following to your WEB-INF/web.xml
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>cross-origin</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>

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$http.post cross domain request not working in Internet explorer (Network Error 0x80070005, Access is denied)

When I make an $http.post request and set the "withCredentials" property to true.
My request works fine in Chrome and Fiefox. However, I'm getting the error below in IE:
XMLHttpRequest: Network Error 0x80070005, Access is denied.
I noticed that if I enable the "Access data resources across domains" setting in IE, The error gets resolved. However I need to find an alternative solution because I can't ask the users to enable that setting obviously.
I noticed that a $http.get request to the same domain is working in IE with no issue, the issue is only with the $http.post request, the Options request is getting a 500 internal server and I see the request and response headers below:
Note:
I do have the necessary custom headers, and I can see them in Chrome when the OPTIONS request succeeds. The headers that I see in Chrome are listed below:
Could you please let me know if I'm missing something that would make the request work in IE without having to enable Access data sources across domains?
Internet Explorer 9 doesn't support cookies in CORS requests. The withCredentials property of the $http arguments attempts to send cookies. I don't think there's any way to fix it with headers. IE10+ should work by default, just be sure that you are not in compatibility mode. CORS isn't fully implemented in IE10 either, but the type of request you are trying to do should work.
You didn't mention what the nature of your web app is, but it impacts the type of workaround you will need for IE9. If possible, see if you can refactor your code to use a GET request instead (again, I don't know what you are trying to do via AJAX so this may be impossible).
You may be able to use Modernizr or something similar to detect if the browser supports CORS. If it is not supported, send the request without AJAX and have a page refresh.
Another alternative if you really want to use AJAX is to set up a proxy on your web server, i.e. the server on the same domain. Instead of making the cross-origin request directly, you make the AJAX request to your same-origin server, which then makes the request to the cross-origin server for you. The server won't have CORS issues. This solution assumes, of course, that you have some server-side scripting going on such as PHP, Node or Java.

Why is CORS Disabled by Default?

Alright, first of all, I am absolutely aware that we have a bunch of answers on this and there is a plethora of articles on the topic. I just read these answers a second before typing this:
Why is CORS without credentials forbidden?.
Is CORS considered bad practice?
Etc. My particular situation is this - I just set up WebAPI2 for my practice project, the front end for which is running via gulp browser-sync. I have no idea how these ports get picked, but lets say the Web API is running on port http://localhost:1234/ and browser-sync generates the website on http://localhost:4321/. So I hit the API via angular's $http and get the famous CORS error (API controller method does get hit), so I am guessing it's the API returning not allowed. Edit: I fixed this via installing a CORS for Web API package via NuGet (Article Here) before asking this Q, just referencing for anyone who might need it later.
So, I was thinking, if I deployed this, ANY request would get denied, unless I am missing something. Or would it not be denied because of something I don't understand? Is disallowing CORS just a throwback from the MVC days? Or is there some purpose to it with APIs?
Maybe I am just ranting, but this confuses the **** out of me.
CORS is based on the response headers returned from the API. It is not the API that rejects responding to the request, the web browser explicitly disallows handling the response. The API will process the request as normal.
When dealing with anything other than a GET, CORS also requires a "preflight" request to the API first, to ensure subsequent requests are allowed. This amongst sending the headers back is what the Web API nuget package provides.
CORS is off by default for security purposes.

Angular restfull call in plnkr 404

Im trying to connect to the openweather api using a factory function in angular. However I get an 404. My link is spot on, but I guess its failing because of the plnkr code in front of the api link
GET http://run.plnkr.co/65ULuFbF2mV8fL2X/api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=London 404 (Not Found)
The test file can be found here:
http://plnkr.co/edit/wstR9oZdYf24jxjru8vS?p=preview
Is there some kind of code or setting to remove the http://run.plnkr.co/65ULuFbF2mV8fL2X/ from the call?
CORS (Cross Origin Resource Sharing) is not supported by the OpenWeatherMap api.
You can take a look at this article to see the reason your code doesn't work: accessing-external-apis-with-angularjs
This means that the OpenWeatherMap API does support CORS. We can try
to access the API via JSONP. $http.jsonp on an API that does not
support CORS, but supports JSONP
I updated your plunker to make it work:
in CONSTANTS.js
LINK: 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q='
in weatherFactory.js
$http.jsonp(config.LINK + city + "&callback=JSON_CALLBACK")
http://plnkr.co/edit/jTYDQlytgIx3jUXQa4MD?p=preview

404 returned in CORS request for some web api calls from angular service

I have an angular application that retrieves data from an ASP.Net web api service.
The web api is hosted on a different domain.
The web api contains multiple URL's to query different types of data, for instance site2/api/Employees, site2/api/Managers, etc.
The web api has a global configuration, as it does normally, i.e. no special configurations are made for any specific controllers.
I have created different controllers in angularjs and for each controller there is a service(copy-pasted code, but I have checked and updated all the necessary references correctly).
When I access site2/api/Employees from my angular code in site1, data is returned from the web api service.
However, when I access /site2/api/Managers from my angular code I get an error OPTIONS:/site2/api/Managers 404 not found
XMLHttpRequest cannot load /site2/api/Managers invalid status code 404
Could someone please,provide a solution for this issue
is i am not angularjs user but i can help you in cors
The cors request works when browsers allow cross-domain request.
One way is to Allow Cors request is through client browser
(jquery) jQuery.support.cors = true this line would be help full if
you are aiming IE Only
For Enabling in other Browser you may check this javscript
Another way is to set HTTP responses header to all access to Cors from server side
below is my php code to all access to Cors through HTTP responses header
<?php
header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://yourdomain.com');
header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST, GET, OPTIONS, PUT, DELETE');
header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'Content-Type');
i hope this may help you..

Is there a way to avoid Preflighting with $http?

I'm using nginx on the remote server, and with no support for the OPTIONS method I've been terribly stuck. Both the server and angular refuse to talk to each other.
I just want to make a simple $http.post() request. Is there a way to configure the service to ONLY send the POST request, and not do any preflighting with OPTIONS?
This is not something AngularJS does, but something your browser does according to the Cross-Origin Resource Sharing standard. See also this answer on a related issue.
However, if you make it so that the AngularJS application is served from the same domain as your resource (different subdomains will affect cross-origin), then the browser will not send the OPTIONS request as the resource is no longer from a cross-origin server.
Example:
www.example.com requests resource on api.example.com will trigger OPTIONS request
www.example.com requests resource from www.example.com/api will not trigger OPTIONS request
If CORS is Unavoidable
You could change the header of the request to text/plain and then parse your response manually acording to answers in this link below
How to skip the OPTIONS preflight request in AngularJS

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