Angular $http.get call to web api - angularjs

Question

I have two web applications running. App1 is an angular SPA and App2 is an MVC web api written in c#. I am executing both applications from Visual Studio 2015, running debug in IIS Express.
My angular code (App1) is trying to call an api controller in App2 using the following (debug) code:
$http.get('https://localhost:12345/api/values').then(function (response) {
alert(response.data);
}, function (err) {
alert(err);
}).catch(function (e) {
console.log("error", e);
throw e;
}) .finally(function () {
console.log("This finally block");
});
I always hit the "alert(err);" line - it never successfully executes and err has nothing useful in it to indicate what the problem could be.
In Postman (addin for Chrome), I can confirm the call I'm trying to make to App2 works fine. What am I doing wrong? Could this be an issue with CORS?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You either experiencing CORS/SAME ORIGIN POLICY issue that some information about it in angular js can be found here: How to enable CORS in AngularJs.
this is how you handle it in server site in your case: http://docs.asp.net/projects/mvc/en/latest/security/cors-policy.html#cors-policy
or you better open the developer tools in console tab and bring us some more information about what happened in your code.

Answer 2

Ok the problem I had was in the web api (MVC 6 - ASP.net 5) in that I had to allow the requests from my angular web site. The startup.cs file had the following added:
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
// Add framework services.
services.AddMvc();
services.AddCors();
StartupInitialize(services);
}
// This method gets called by the runtime. Use this method to configure the HTTP request pipeline.
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory)
{
loggerFactory.AddConsole(Configuration.GetSection("Logging"));
loggerFactory.AddDebug();
app.UseIISPlatformHandler();
app.UseStaticFiles();
app.UseCors(builder => builder.WithOrigins("http://localhost:12345/"));
app.UseMvc();
antiForgery = (IAntiforgery)app.ApplicationServices.GetService(typeof(IAntiforgery));
}