I've got some Angular code where I am attempting to send a POST to a dev server.
var url = 'http://someDevUrl.com',
data = { 'someKey': 'some value' };
$http.post(url, data);
It sends the OPTIONS preflight request. I can see it hit the server, and the server gives it a happy response.
OPTIONS Response Headers:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Cowboy
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 18:20:44 GMT
Connection: close
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Max-Age: 30
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: x-requested-with, content-type, accept, origin, authorization, x-csrftoken
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, OPTIONS
Via: 1.1 vegur
but then Angular never sends the POST after that...
Typically when $http.post() only sends an OPTIONS request, that means the OPTIONS request returned an error (usually a CORS issue). But in this case, all is fine with the OPTIONS request & response, but it still won't send the POST.
Has anyone seen this before or have an idea of what might be preventing it from sending the POST?
EDIT:
I've got around the issue by adding a Content-Type: text/plain header to the request:
var url = 'http://someDevUrl.com',
data = { 'someKey': 'some value' },
config = {
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'text/plain'
}
}
};
$http.post(url, data, config);
which causes it to skip the OPTIONS preflight, thus avoiding the issue. I'm still curious to know why it was not working in the first place, since there was/is no CORS issue and the OPTIONS request was not sending back an error response.
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I'm using angular to POST to an authentication endpoint; on the server side, I can see the request succeed, and proper CORS headers are set. Angular's origin is http://localhost:9000
On the server side, preflight OPTIONS requests always get a 200 back, so that seems OK.
On the client side, the $http.post always fails with an error code of 0, which from other research suggests something is still wrong with CORS. I've read the spec and tried a number of other answers, yet something is still missing.
Angular POSTs like this:
$http({
method: 'POST',
url: 'http://localhost:3000/auth/login',
data: {
username: $scope.username,
password: $scope.password
}
})
.then(function (response) {
/* etc. etc. */
}, function (response) {
/* This always triggers, with response.status = 0 */
console.log("ERROR: " + response.data);
console.log("Status: " + response.status);
console.log("Status text: " + response.statusText);
console.log("Headers: " + response.headers);
$scope.error = 'Something went wrong...';
});
Using curl to debug what the server is sending back, this is it:
< HTTP/1.1 302 Found
< X-Powered-By: Express
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
< Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET,PUT,POST,DELETE,OPTIONS
< Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Origin, Content-Type, Accept, Authorization, Content-Length, X-Requested-With
< Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
< Set-Cookie: ua_session_token=(blahblah); Path=/
< Location: /
< Vary: Accept
< Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
< Content-Length: 23
< Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 15:08:17 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
This is why I'm at a loss, as per the specification, the server seems to be doing the right thing?
Here's what the server gets from the client in terms of request headers:
HEADER host localhost:3000
HEADER content-type application/json;charset=UTF-8
HEADER origin http://localhost:9000
HEADER content-length 38
HEADER connection keep-alive
HEADER accept application/json, text/plain, */*
HEADER user-agent Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_2) AppleWebKit/601.3.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.2 Safari/601.3.9
HEADER referer http://localhost:9000/
HEADER accept-language en-us
HEADER accept-encoding gzip, deflate
UPDATE tried something else with no luck, based on this post. It would seem Access-Control-Allow-Headers is case-sensitive, and angular is sending on the request accept, origin, content-type. I tweaked the server to parrot back the same, with no luck.
Alright, after applying my head to my keyboard for several hours, I've fixed it.
The answer seems to be that angular really doesn't like getting redirects in response to POST. When I changed the server endpoint to return just a plain auth token as text (the same token it was setting as a cookie anyway) rather than returning a redirect, the angular POST started working like a charm and falling through to the success handler.
Not sure I got deep enough into this to know why angular was behaving in that way; by playing around with it I found that if the redirect the server sent was to a nonexistent (404) URL that this could be replicated, EVEN IF the original POST returned that valid redirect.
I am using angular JS to login to my app. On the server, it returns a X-AUTH-TOKEN. When I do a JSON request. The header response looks like this...
Pragma: no-cache
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 12:44:05 GMT
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
X-Frame-Options: DENY
Access-Control-Max-Age: 3600
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST, GET, OPTIONS, DELETE
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: chrome-extension://gmodihnfibbjdecbanmpmbmeffnmloel
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
X-AUTH-TOKEN: eyJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJiaWxseWpvZSJ9.le0y_pOfQAyLJO4IJ4ZjQQqgqgiN2xtpLAzORawoDm4O4euHFh32LtjMrBUTkr8G2LeY_2bALe_rcm3LY_NlSg
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type, Accept, X-Requested-With, remember-me
Content-Length: 88
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
Expires: 0
As you can see. X-AUTH-TOKEN is present. But when I try to retrieve it and save it to local storage...
$http.post(loginUrl)
.success(function(data, status,headers) {
$scope.hello = data;
var TOKEN = headers("X-AUTH-TOKEN");
window.localStorage['X-AUTH-TOKEN-TRIVIA'] = headers("X-AUTH-TOKEN");
})
It always returns NULL. Why is it not retrieving the token if its clearly in the header ?
I have also used single quotes.
$http.post(loginUrl)
.success(function(data, status,headers) {
$scope.hello = data;
var TOKEN = headers('X-AUTH-TOKEN');
window.localStorage['X-AUTH-TOKEN-TRIVIA'] = headers('X-AUTH-TOKEN');
})
Figured it out... Thanks to another post
Angular.js saying custom HTTP response header is null
The problem is server side. You must add Access-Control-Expose-Headers: X-Auth-Token
In my case using Spring Boot or Spring. You probably would have to add this in your CorsFilter
response.setHeader("Access-Control-Expose-Headers", "X-Auth-Token");
I'm using CakePHP as backend and AngularJS as frontend, whereas front- & backend are in different domains so this is basically a CORS-situation.
Basically I'm trying to send the contents of a form to a Cake-API (later this is meant to do authentication part - but I'm failing earlier) via $http.post. So here is the code:
aeapBackend.login = function(username, password) {
return $http.post(
API_URL + 'api_mobile_user/login', {
test: username,
test2: password
}
);
};
Whereas the corresponding API in CakePHP looks like this:
function beforeFilter() {
parent::beforeFilter();
$this->Auth->allow(array('login'));
}
public function login() {
$this->response->header(array(
'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' => '*',
'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' => 'Content-Type'
)
);
$this->autoRender = false;
}
What happens next is that the preflight OPTIONS request ist done - which looks quite good to me:
Request Headers:
OPTIONS /api_mobile_user/login HTTP/1.1
Host: aeap.localhost
Connection: keep-alive
Access-Control-Request-Method: POST
Origin: http://asf.localhost
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11A465 Safari/9537.53
Access-Control-Request-Headers: accept, content-type
Accept: */*
Referer: http://asf.localhost/?username_input=hjk&password_input=hjgk&login_button=
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: de-DE,de;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4
Response headers:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 15:29:00 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.10 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.0.1i PHP/5.5.15
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.15
Set-Cookie: CAKEPHP=j6st0hnq8ear2cc6psg56d6eu3; expires=Wed, 05-Nov-2014 19:29:00 GMT; Max-Age=14400; path=/; HttpOnly
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type
Content-Length: 0
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
But when the actual POST-request is done I get an status code 403:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://aeap.localhost/api_mobile_user/login. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://asf.localhost' is therefore not allowed access. The response had HTTP status code 403.
How can I avoid this? In my opinion I already enabled CORS support for Cake ['Access-Control-Allow-Origin']. It seems to me that AngularJS posts some additional informations whioch are not checked during the preflight and then rejected by the backend.
Used versions: CakePHP 2.5.3, AngularJS: 1.3.0
Thanks to Marvin Smit I was able to determine the reason for the behavior which was not connected to CORS are the headers. I set 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' => '*'on web-server level so I was able to get a response which pointed to the security component of CakePHP.
I basically tried to send a POST-Reuqest to an API which did not expect that data should be posted to it. Therefore the access was denied. So I had to add $this->Security->csrfCheck = false to the beforeFilter:
function beforeFilter() {
parent::beforeFilter();
$this->Auth->allow(array('login'));
$this->Security->csrfCheck = false;
}
For what it's worth, the proper way to do this for Cakephp 3 is as follows
public function beforeFilter() {
parent::beforeFilter();
$this->Auth->allow(array('login'));
$this->eventManager()->off($this->Csrf);
}
Although, this is not recommended for AJAX requests. The following doc can help you more. CSRF And AJAX
I'm trying to set a HTTP Header for all my REST calls with following code:
app.factory('authInterceptor', function ($rootScope, $q, $window) {
return {
request: function (config) {
config.headers = config.headers || {};
config.headers.Authorization = '12345678';
return config;
},
response: function (response) {
if (response.status === 401) {
// handle the case where the user is not authenticated
}
return response || $q.when(response);
}
};
});
app.config(function ($httpProvider) {
$httpProvider.interceptors.push('authInterceptor');
});
I currently don't have any authorization enabled on the server.
when I leave out the line "config.headers.Authorization = '12345678';" , then the REST call works well and I get my results. In the JS console I see
GET http://localhost:8080/rest/club/1 [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 7ms]
But when I put this line in to set the Header field, then I see following request in the javascript console
OPTIONS http://localhost:8080/rest/club/1 [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 2ms]
Why does setting Authorization Header change my method from "GET" to "OPTIONS"? And how can I set a custom Header and my request still work?
changing it to
config.headers["X-Testing"] = '12345678';
had the same result.
EDIT:
I tried the answer, I'm setting following HTTP Headers in the server:
response.getHeaders().putSingle("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "http://localhost");
response.getHeaders().putSingle("Access-Control-Allow-Header", "X-Testing");
response.getHeaders().putSingle("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "POST, GET, OPTIONS");
response.getHeaders().putSingle("Access-Control-Max-Age", 1728000);
my REST server is running on port 8080, the webserver for the html/JS on port 8000 (initially worked with file://... but moved to a separate webserver because Origin was null)
response.getHeaders().putSingle("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
or
response.getHeaders().putSingle("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "http://localhost:8000");
didn't work either.
Must I return any content in the OPTIONS response? I tried 200 OK with the same content as the GET, but I also tried 204 No Content.
2nd EDIT:
here is what firefox sends and receives for the OPTIONS method:
You need to enable CORS in your REST service. As explained in MDN, once you add a custom header, the http protocol specifies performing a preflight,
Preflighted requests
Unlike simple requests (discussed above), "preflighted" requests first
send an HTTP request by the OPTIONS method to the resource on the
other domain, in order to determine whether the actual request is safe
to send. Cross-site requests are preflighted like this since they may
have implications to user data. In particular, a request is
preflighted if:
It uses methods other than GET, HEAD or POST. Also, if POST is used
to send request data with a Content-Type other than
application/x-www-form-urlencoded, multipart/form-data, or text/plain,
e.g. if the POST request sends an XML payload to the server using
application/xml or text/xml, then the request is preflighted. It sets
custom headers in the request (e.g. the request uses a header such as
X-PINGOTHER)
Addition to enabling CORS you also need to add a Access-Control-Allow-Headers header tag to accept your custom header (for the OPTIONS response). This is visible in the MDN Example,
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:15:39 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.61 (Unix)
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://foo.example
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST, GET, OPTIONS
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: X-PINGOTHER
Access-Control-Max-Age: 1728000
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 0
Keep-Alive: timeout=2, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/plain
UPDATE
As mentioned in the comments, the OPTION response's Access-Control-Allow-Headers is missing the last "s".
DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/rob_balfre/7QUUf/
How do you POST data (across domain) using $resource?
For example this curl writes to the API with no problem:
curl --dump-header - -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST --data '{"name": "Wobbly"}' http://192.168.91.20/api/food/
and the header response is:
HTTP/1.0 201 CREATED
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 08:19:42 GMT
Server: WSGIServer/0.1 Python/2.6.1
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type,*
Location: http://localhost/api/food/15/
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST,GET,OPTIONS,PUT,DELETE
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
I'm totally stuck on how to get angular to POST the same way. This is my $resource, it's worth noting that 'get' works just fine:
angular.module('tastypieModule', ['ngResource']).
factory('FoodOptions', function($resource, $timeout) {
var FoodOptions = $resource('http://testurl/api/:type',
{type: 'food'},
{
get: {method: 'JSONP', params: {format: 'jsonp', callback:'JSON_CALLBACK'}},
update: {method: 'POST', headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}}
}
);
return FoodOptions;
})
When I call update it just fails and I see this is the console network tab:
METHOD: OPTIONS
STATUS: (canceled) Load cancelled
On the server you need to implement a Cross Origin Resource Sharing. http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/cors/ and http://omarrr.com/cors-html5-approach-to-crossdomain-policies/ both have good articles about the topic. The HEAD request is coming from the browser to your server to check for the headers that contain (or in your case, don't contain) the CORS permissions. If you implement CORS on the server then you'll see the browser first make a HEAD request once to the server then after confirming the correct permissions it will make the POST.