Axios requests using authentication token sometimes fail in Safari - django-rest-framework

I'm developing a react (16.9.0) single page app that uses axios (0.19.0). The axios requests use token authentication to access a server running django-rest-framework (3.6.4) and django-cors-headers (3.1.1). The authentication tokens are generated by django-rest-auth (0.9.5) during login.
The app works reliably in Chrome and Firefox. In Safari, some of requests fail due to 401 errors.
This requests succeeds in all three browsers:
INFO basehttp: "GET /apis/games/?slug=pop HTTP/1.1" 200 60932```
the code that generates it looks like:
axios
.get(`${simplUrl}/apis/games/?slug=${gameSlug}`, {
headers: { Authorization: simplToken },
})
.then(res => {
this.setState({
game: res.data[0],
});
...
This request failed with Safari:
INFO basehttp: "OPTIONS /apis/runs/43 HTTP/1.1" 200 0
INFO basehttp: "DELETE /apis/runs/43 HTTP/1.1" 301 0
INFO basehttp: "OPTIONS /apis/runs/43/ HTTP/1.1" 200 0
WARNING basehttp: "DELETE /apis/runs/43/ HTTP/1.1" 401 58
but succeeded with Chrome:
INFO basehttp: "OPTIONS /apis/runs/43 HTTP/1.1" 200 0
INFO basehttp: "DELETE /apis/runs/43 HTTP/1.1" 301 0
INFO basehttp: "OPTIONS /apis/runs/43/ HTTP/1.1" 200 0
INFO basehttp: "DELETE /apis/runs/43/ HTTP/1.1" 204 0
the code that generates it looks like:
const url = `${simplUrl}/apis/runs/${run.id}`;
// console.log('url:', url);
axios
.delete(url, {
headers: { Authorization: simplToken },
})
.then(res => {
// console.log(res);
afterDelete();
});
The Safari 401 response was:
"detail": "Authentication credentials were not provided."
This is the information Safari logged for the failed DELETE request:
The DRF apis views use are based on this mixing:
class CommonViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
authentication_classes = (TokenAuthentication, BasicAuthentication, SessionAuthentication)
permission_classes = (IsAuthenticated,)
For local development, the DRF server's CORS settings are:
CORS_ORIGIN_ALLOW_ALL = True
CORS_ALLOW_HEADERS = [
'accept',
'accept-encoding',
'authorization',
'content-type',
'dnt',
'origin',
'user-agent',
'x-csrftoken',
'x-requested-with',
]
I don't understand why some requests fail in Safari while others do not. Mostly, I want to insure all requests work in all three browsers.

The solution was to add a trailing slash to urls referencing a single object. The DRF Router docs indicate the correct pattern is:
URL pattern: ^users/{pk}/$ Name: 'user-detail'
Whether it's a bug or a feature that Safari doesn't include the authentication token in redirected requests resulting a 401 error, I'll leave to the reader.

Did you see this ?,I'm not really sure but this discussion may help.
Also, as the error is related to token, try to verify that its sent or added to the request correctly or if it has a type like bearer or somthing.
Also try to log the incoming request headers and its body, so you can make sure that nothing is missing or corrupted.
As this issue happen with DELETE, try to comapre all requests to each other to find out what is missing.

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Unable to access Authorization header in Svelte

I am new to Svelte, and am trying to create a login page to an API. The API takes a username and password and returns an Authorization header. I see the authorization header in the F12 developer console, and I am able to access other headers via code, but not the Authorization header. I have enabled CORS on the server for localhost:8080.
<script>
const BASE_URL = ...;
export let username;
export let password;
let result;
let status;
let body;
let token;
let contentType;
async function doPost () {
const res = await fetch(BASE_URL + 'authenticate', {
method: 'POST',
mode: 'cors',
headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
body: JSON.stringify({
'username': username,
'password': password
})
});
const text = await res.text();
status = res.status;
result = text;
token = res.headers.get('Authorization');
contentType = res.headers.get('Content-type');
if (!res.ok) {
throw new Error(result);
}
}
</script>
Please log in<br>
<input type="text" bind:value={username}/>
<br>
<input type="password" bind:value={password}/>
<br>
<button type="button" on:click={doPost}>Log in</button>
<br>
Result: {result}
<br>
Status: {status}
<br>
Token: {token}
<br>
Content-type: {contentType}
Response headers are as follows:
HTTP/1.1 200
Server: nginx/1.20.0
Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 18:59:09 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 8
Connection: keep-alive
Vary: Origin
Vary: Access-Control-Request-Method
Vary: Access-Control-Request-Headers
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://localhost:8080
Authorization: Bearer xyz...
The page displays as follows after logging in:
Result: Welcome!
Status: 200
Token: null
Content-type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8
Server side (spring boot) has the following annotation on the authenticate method:
#CrossOrigin(origins = "http://localhost:8080", allowedHeaders = "*", allowCredentials = "true")
As you can see, I am able to access the content-type header but not the authorization header. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
I figured it out. I needed to add exposedHeaders = "Authorization" to the #CrossOrigin annotation on the server side.
I literally solved this exact problem today. So... I'm not entirely sure why you cannot access the cookies sent back in the HTTP response, I believe it has something to do with not allowing js access to cookie related data for security reasons.
A preliminary issue I see, is that you should be sending the API auth token to the frontend, in the 'set-cookie' header, along with sending it in the HTTP response body, which I assume is JSON for your API.
I've never seen anyone suggest sending it in the 'Authorization' header like you have. I believe you are confused. I'll try and clarify the right way to do this and why you're most likely confused.
Your backend will generate an access token of some sort upon a successful login. Like I said, you send it back in the 'set-cookie' header, aswell as in the HTTP body.
Now when you read the response on the frontend, you can retrieve the Auth token from the HTTP response body, and use it in subsequent requests to authenticate to your backend server. The way JWT tokens are expected to be sent is in the 'Authorization' header of your request. This is where you're mixed up, the 'Authorization' header is used in subsequent authenticated requests to the server, not to send the Auth token from the backend to the frontend.
Now along with setting up the 'Authorization' header, you'll most likely need to send that same token in the 'cookie' header. You can do this by using the {withCredentials: true} option with fetch. This will send the cookie you sent in the 'set-cookie' response header after a successful login attempt, back to the server on all subsequent requests where you set this option.
Hope this helps, sorry I'm on my phone, so restricted with what I can write.

CORS in Ajax-requests against an MVC controller with IdentityServer3-authorization

I'm currently working on site that uses various Ajax-requests to save, load and autocomplete data. It is build using C#, MVC and JQuery. All actions on the MVC controllers require the users to be authorized, and we use IdentityServer3 for authentication. It was installed using NuGet, and the current version is 2.3.0.
When I open the page and push buttons, everything is working just fine. The problem seem to occur when a certain session expires. If I stay idle for a while, and try to use an Ajax-function, it generates the following error:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://identityserver.domain.com/connect/authorize?client_id=Bar&redirect_uri=http%3a%2f%2flocalhost%3a12345&response_mode=form_post&response_type=id_token+token&scope=openid+profile+email+phone+roles [...]. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:12345' is therefore not allowed access.
From what I know about Ajax, the problem itself is pretty simple. The MVC site has lost track of the current session, and it is asking the client to authenticate again. The response I get from the Ajax-request is a "302 Found", with a Location-header that points to our IdentityServer. The IdentityServer happens to be on another domain, and while this works fine when you are performing regular HTTP-requests, it does not work particularly well for Ajax-requests. The "Same Origin Policy" is straight up blocking the Ajax-function from authenticating. If I refresh the page, I will be redirected to the IdentityServer and authenticate normally. Things will then go back to normal for a few minutes.
The solution is probably to add an extra header in the response message from the IdentityServer, that explicitly states that cross-origin requests are allowed for this service.
I am currently not getting this header from the IdentityServer (checked in Fiddler).
According to the docs, it should be enabled by default. I have checked that we have indeed enabled CORS this way:
factory.CorsPolicyService = new Registration<ICorsPolicyService>(new DefaultCorsPolicyService { AllowAll = true });
This is one of my clients:
new Client
{
Enabled = true,
ClientName = "Foo",
ClientId = "Bar",
ClientSecrets = new List<Secret>
{
new Secret("Cosmic")
},
Flow = Flows.Implicit,
RequireConsent = false,
AllowRememberConsent = true,
AccessTokenType = AccessTokenType.Jwt,
PostLogoutRedirectUris = new List<string>
{
"http://localhost:12345/",
"https://my.domain.com"
},
RedirectUris = new List<string>
{
"http://localhost:12345/",
"https://my.domain.com"
},
AllowAccessToAllScopes = true
}
These settings do not work. I am noticing that I have an extra forward slash in the URIs here, but if I remove them, I get the default IdentityServer-error that states that the client is not authorized (wrong URI). If I deploy the site (instead of running a localhost debug), I use the domain name without a trailing slash, and I get the exact same behaviour as I do in debug. I do notice that there is no trailing slash in the error message above, and I figured this could be the problem until I saw the same thing in the deployed version of the site.
I also made my own policy provider, like this:
public class MyCorsPolicyService : ICorsPolicyService
{
public Task<bool> IsOriginAllowedAsync(string origin)
{
return Task.FromResult(true);
}
}
... and I plugged it into the IdentityServerServiceFactory like this:
factory.CorsPolicyService = new Registration<ICorsPolicyService>(new MyCorsPolicyService());
The idea is for it to return true regardless of origin. This did not work either; exactly the same results as before.
I've read about a dozen other threads on this particular subject, but I'm getting nowhere. To my knowledge, we are not doing anything unusual when it comes to the setup of the different sites. It's all pretty much out-of-the-box. Any advice?
----- UPDATE -----
The problem persists. I have now tried some fresh tactics. I read somewhere that cookie authentication was bad for Ajax-requests, and that I should be using bearer tokens instead. I set this up in Ajax like this:
$(function () {
$(document).ajaxSend(function (event, request, settings) {
console.log("Setting bearer token.");
request.setRequestHeader("Authorization", "Bearer " + $bearerToken);
});
});
Both the console in Chrome and Fiddler confirms that the token is indeed present and sent by JQuery. The token I use comes from the access_token-property on claims principal object from HttpContext.GetOwinContext().Authentication.User.
This didn't do much. I still get a 302-response from the server, and Fiddler reveals that the token is not sent on the following Ajax-request (which is a GET-request) to the IdentityServer.
From there, I read this thread:
Handling CORS Preflight requests to ASP.NET MVC actions
I tried to put this code in to the startup.cs of the IdentityServer, but there does not appear to be a "preflight" request going in. All I see in Fiddler is this (from the beginning):
1 - The initial Ajax-request from the client to the MVC controller:
POST http://localhost:12345/my/url HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:12345
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: pretty long
Authorization: Bearer <insert long token here>
Origin: http://localhost:12345
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.106 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Referer: http://localhost:12345/my/url
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: nb-NO,nb;q=0.8,no;q=0.6,nn;q=0.4,en-US;q=0.2,en;q=0.2
Cookie: OpenIdConnect.nonce.<insert 30 000 lbs of hashed text here>
param=fish&morestuff=salmon&crossDomain=true
2 - The redirect response from the MVC controller:
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Cache-Control: private
Location: https://identityserver.domain.com/connect/authorize?client_id=Bar&redirect_uri=http%3a%2f%2flocalhost%3a12345%2f&response_mode=form_post&response_type=id_token+token&scope=openid+profile+email [...]
Server: Microsoft-IIS/10.0
X-AspNetMvc-Version: 5.2
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
Set-Cookie: OpenIdConnect.nonce.<lots of hashed text>
X-SourceFiles: <more hashed text>
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:23:08 GMT
Content-Length: 0
3 - The Ajax-request to the IdentityServer:
GET https://identityserver.domain.com/connect/authorize?client_id=Bar&redirect_uri=http%3a%2f%2flocalhost%3a12345%2f&response_mode=form_post&response_type=id_token+token&scope=openid+profile+email [...]
Host: identityserver.domain.com
Connection: keep-alive
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
Origin: http://localhost:12345
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.106 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
Referer: http://localhost:12345/my/url
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch
Accept-Language: nb-NO,nb;q=0.8,no;q=0.6,nn;q=0.4,en-US;q=0.2,en;q=0.2
4 - The response from IdentityServer3
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Content-Length: 0
Location: https://identityserver.domain.com/login?signin=<some hexadecimal id>
Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.5
Set-Cookie: SignInMessage.<many, many, many hashed bytes>; path=/; secure; HttpOnly
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:23:11 GMT
5 - The meltdown of Chrome
XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://identityserver.domain.com/connect/authorize?client_id=Bar&blahblahblah. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:12345' is therefore not allowed access.
I was having a similar issue using OWIN Middleware for OpenIDConnect with a different identity provider. However, the behavior occurred after 1 hour instead of 5 minutes. The solution was to check if the request was an AJAX request, and if so, force it to return 401 instead of 302. Here is the code that performed this:
app.UseOpenIdConnectAuthentication(new OpenIdConnectAuthenticationOptions
{
ClientId = oktaOAuthClientId,
Authority = oidcAuthority,
RedirectUri = oidcRedirectUri,
ResponseType = oidcResponseType,
Scope = oauthScopes,
SignInAsAuthenticationType = "Cookies",
UseTokenLifetime = true,
Notifications = new OpenIdConnectAuthenticationNotifications
{
AuthorizationCodeReceived = async n =>
{
//...
},
RedirectToIdentityProvider = n => //token expired!
{
if (IsAjaxRequest(n.Request))
{
n.Response.StatusCode = 401;//for web api only!
n.Response.Headers.Remove("Set-Cookie");
n.State = NotificationResultState.HandledResponse;
}
return Task.CompletedTask;
},
}
});
Then, I used an Angular interceptor to detect a statusCode of 401, and redirected to the authentication page.
I came across this problem as well and UseTokenLifetime = false was not solving the problem since you loose the token validity on STS.
When I tried to reach the authorized api method, I still got 401 even if I was valid on Owin.
The solution I found is keeping UseTokenLifetime = true as default but to write a global ajax error handler (or angular http interceptor) something like this:
$.ajaxSetup({
global: true,
error: function(xhr, status, err) {
if (xhr.status == -1) {
alert("You were idle too long, redirecting to STS") //or something like that
window.location.reload();
}
}});
to trigger the authentication workflow.
I had this issue recently, it was caused by the header X-Requested-With being sent with the AJAX request. Removing this header or intercepting it and handling it with a 401 will put you on the right track.
If you don't have this header, the issue is most likely being caused by a different header triggering the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response.
As you found, nothing you do in Identity Server regarding CORS will solve this.
As it turns out, the problem was in the client configuration in MVC. I was missing the UseTokenLifetime property, which should have been set to false.
app.UseOpenIdConnectAuthentication(
new OpenIdConnectAuthenticationOptions
{
ClientId = "Bar",
Scope = "openid profile email phone roles",
UseTokenLifetime = false,
SignInAsAuthenticationType = "Cookies"
[...]
For some reason, IdentityServer sets all these cookies to expire within 5 minutes of them being distributed. This particular setting will override IdentityServer's tiny expiration time, and instead use aprox. 10 hours, or whatever the default is in your client application.
One could say that this is good enough for solving the problem. It will however inevitably return if the user decides to spend 10 hours idling on the site, clicking nothing but Ajax-buttons.
https://github.com/IdentityServer/IdentityServer3/issues/2424
Assumptions:
.NET Framework 4.8 WebForms
OWIN-based auth lib i.e. Microsoft.Owin.Security.OpenIdConnect v4.2.2.0
UseOpenIdConnectAuthentication() with Azure AD endpoint
UseTokenLifetime=true
In Layout.Master:
$.ajaxSetup({
global: true,
error: function (xhr, status, err) {
if (xhr.status == 401) {
window.location.reload();
}
}
});
In startup.cs:
app.UseOpenIdConnectAuthentication(new OpenIdConnectAuthenticationOptions
{
...
Notifications = new OpenIdConnectAuthenticationNotifications()
{
...
RedirectToIdentityProvider = RedirectToIdentityProvider
}
});
...
public Task RedirectToIdentityProvider(RedirectToIdentityProviderNotification<OpenIdConnectMessage, OpenIdConnectAuthenticationOptions> context)
{
if (IsAjaxRequest(context.Request))
{
context.Response.StatusCode = 401;
context.Response.Headers.Remove("Set-Cookie");
context.State = NotificationResultState.HandledResponse;
}
}
public bool IsAjaxRequest(this IOwinRequest request)
{
if (request == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException("Woopsie!");
}
var context = HttpContext.Current;
var isCallbackRequest = false;
if (context != null && context.CurrentHandler != null && context.CurrentHandler is System.Web.UI.Page page)
{
isCallbackRequest = page.IsCallback;
}
return isCallbackRequest || (request.Cookies["X-Requested-With"] == "XMLHttpRequest") || (request.Headers["X-Requested-With"] == "XMLHttpRequest");
}

Google Plus API Insert Moments not displayed

I am using C# code to insert moments on User's Wall(It will be displayed in user's app's wall) but those are not being actually inserted. I am getting 200 response after insertion but that response has only 2 fields(kind & id) and no other fields(item, target etc.). I have read most of resources over internet but I think I am only soul who is facing this strange error.
I am pasting here plain http request-response
Request
POST https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/people/me/moments/vault HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: google-api-dotnet-client/1.9.1.12394 (gzip)
Authorization: Bearer <accesstoken>
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Host: www.googleapis.com
Content-Length: 211
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
{
"target":
{
"name":"An example of add activity",
"url":"https://developers.google.com/+/web/snippet/examples/widget"
},
"type":"http://schemas.google.com/AddActivity"
}
Response 200 OK
{
"kind": "plus#moment",
"id": "Eg0xNDM3OTEwNzAwNDE2GPnkj6mg5b7Y7QEpg7DYUmwWVocyAhAUQgYYlcTmsSI"
}
Important Things
My access_token is already generated by sending parameter request_visible_actions=http://schemas.google.com/AddActivity in auth url.
I am sending useremail and profile scope along with google plus login scope
Can somebody help me??
PS: One strange thing, I have seen that if I don't give "target.url" then I get "500 Internal Server Error"
I have exactly same problem!
I get 200 Ok response with the following data:
{ kind: 'plus#moment',
id: 'Eg0xNDM5ODAzNjQxNDE5GJL-wuqxjM_1FSm5JPhBE8KPMjICEBRCBxiH8r2wphs' }
and then I try to list moments and get 200 Ok response with data:
{ kind: 'plus#momentsFeed',
etag: '"gLJf7LwN3wOpLHXk4IeQ9ES9mEc/6vRErVzx-PXyvghY9zcdoSrT-XU"',
selfLink: 'https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/people/101579422490714750738/moments/vault',
title: 'Plus Moments Feed',
updated: '2015-08-17T09:27:21.500Z',
items: [] }
No moments or posts seen in my Google+ feed!!
Seems like this API does not work......
Any ideas? I've read the Indexing API is a replaceent, however I need my Web application to post moments on behalf of User, not android app.

CORS Issue When Requesting from ExtJS to node.js. Request or Response Header Incorrect?

I am having issues with making an ExtJS AJAX request to the Nodejs server between two different domains within our network and will appreciate any help. Response fails when attempting from both http and https from ExtJS client side but a Curl from my local via http returns 200 OK with proper data. We are working with content type application/json.
ExtJS onReady function has enabled CORS:
Ext.onReady(function () {
Ext.Ajax.cors = true;
Ext.Ajax.useDefaultXhrHeader = false;
... (code removed)
})
A test from my ExtJS client side on a known working URL that will properly create the ExtJS datastore (brings back 200 OK):
Ext.create('Ext.data.Store', {
id : 'countryStore',
model : 'country',
autoLoad : true,
autoDestroy: true,
proxy: {
type: 'rest',
url : 'https://restcountries.eu/rest/v1/all',
},
reader: {
type : 'json',
headers: {'Accept': 'application/json'},
totalProperty : 'total',
successProperty: 'success',
messageProperty: 'message'
}
});
However, when attempting a request to our Nodejs server via
http:
Ext.create('Ext.data.Store', {
id : 'circuits',
model : 'circuit',
autoLoad : true,
autoDestroy: true,
proxy: {
type: 'rest',
url : 'http://ourNodeJsServerDomain:5500/v3/circuits',
},
reader: {
type : 'json',
headers: {'Accept': 'application/json'},
totalProperty : 'total',
successProperty: 'success',
messageProperty: 'message'
}
});
returns the following in Chrome's console:
Mixed Content: The page at 'https://ourExtJsDevClientSide' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure XMLHttpRequest endpoint 'http://ourNodeJsServerDomain:5500/v3/circuits?_dc=1430149427032&page=1&start=0&limit=50'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.
Now, when attempted over https:
Firefox shows:
Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://ourNodeJsServerDomain:5500/v3/circuits?_dc=1430151516741&page=1&start=0&limit=50. This can be fixed by moving the resource to the same domain or enabling CORS.
and the Request Header doesn't show "application/json", is this an issue?:
Accept
text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding
gzip, deflate
Accept-Language
en-US,en;q=0.5
Host
ourNodeJsServerDomain:5500
Origin
https://ourExtJsDevClientSide
Referer
https://ourExtJsDevClientSide
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:37.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/37.0
I then tried with Curl to see what the responses were to help debug
on http gives a 200 OK response but Access-Control-Allow-Origin is undefined even when we are defining it as "*":
curl http://ourNodeJsServerDomain:5500/v3circuits?_limit=1 -v
> GET /v3/circuits?_limit=1 HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.37.1
> Host: ourNodeJsServerDomain:5500
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< X-Powered-By: Express
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: undefined
< Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET
< Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type
< Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
< Content-Length: 1126
< ETag: W/"MlbRIlFPCV6w7+PmPoVYiA=="
< Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:24:18 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
<
[
{ *good json data returned here* } ]
then when I attempt to Curl via https
curl https://ourNodeJsServerDomain:5500/v3/circuits?_limit=1 -v
* Server aborted the SSL handshake
* Closing connection 0
curl: (35) Server aborted the SSL handshake
We have enabled CORS on our Nodejs server:
router
.all('*', function(req, res, next){
res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
// res.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", req.headers.origin);
// console.log('\n\nreq.headers.origin ===================== ' + req.headers.origin);
//I have tried allowing all * via res.SetHeader and res.header and neither is defining the Access-Control-Allow-Origin properly when curling
//res.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
// res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "X-Requested-With");
res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET');
res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'Content-Type');
I have attempted to be detailed in my thought process and I am willing to try new ways to determine how to understand and solve this.
* SOLUTION *
The issue is mixed content from the browser. Our client UI is on https (secure) whereas we were requesting http (unsecure) content from the nodejs server. We needed to allow for our nodejs server to run on https
We generated SSL certifications and implemented them onto our nodejs server.
Within the nodejs code, we enabled CORS with the CORS module and are running both http and https servers:
// enable CORS for all requests
var cors = require('cors');
app.use(cors());
// for certifications
var credentials = {
key: fs.readFileSync('our.key'),
cert: fs.readFileSync('our.crt')
};
var httpServer = http.createServer(app);
var httpsServer = https.createServer(credentials, app);
httpServer.listen(port, function() {
console.log('HTTP server listening on port ' + port);
});
httpsServer.listen(httpsPort, function() {
console.log('HTTPS server listening on port ' + httpsPort);
});
There seems to be issues with both CORS and HTTPS in your server... You should try this middleware for the CORS part, and make it work when accessing the page in raw HTTP first. As far as I know, you'll have to use different ports for HTTP and HTTPS. And you will also probably need to enable CORS credentials. As I said, I think you'd better make it work in HTTP first ;)
Then, on the Ext part, as already mentioned in comments, you should probably disable default headers (or you'll have to make all of them accepted by your server; see the first comment to this answer). But you need to do that on the proxy, because apparently it replaces the global setting in Ext.Ajax.
So, something like this:
Ext.create('Ext.data.Store', {
id : 'countryStore',
model : 'country',
autoLoad : true,
autoDestroy: true,
proxy: {
type: 'rest',
url : 'https://restcountries.eu/rest/v1/all',
useDefaultXhrHeader: false, // <= HERE
reader: {
type : 'json',
headers: {'Accept': 'application/json'},
totalProperty : 'total',
successProperty: 'success',
messageProperty: 'message'
}
} // <= and notice this change
});
Probably unrelated, but note that your indendation was incorrect and hid the fact that the reader option was applied to the store itself instead of the proxy (so it was ignored).

localhost request headers not sending cookies

I am building a nodeJS server which allows users to login using an AJAX post on a client application. The server responds with a cookie that, after successful login, keeps track of the user. I can't however seem to get the client application to send the cookie back to the server. It never seems to respond to the server including the cookie it just recieved.
On the fist call that's made to the server, I login with my credentials. the server responds with this:
In the response headers:
Set-Cookie:SID=0xtW36rYCiV; path=/; expires=Tue, 24-Jun-2014 14:14:51 GMT; secure
In the subsequent request headers:
No cookie is sent back to the server
In my client application I am using the following code:
jQuery.ajax( {
url: this.domain + this.url,
async: this.async,
type: 'POST',
dataType: this.dataType,
crossDomain: true,
cache: true,
accepts: 'text/plain',
data: this.postVars,
success: this.onData.bind( this ),
error: this.onError.bind( this ),
xhrFields: {
withCredentials: true
}
});
Note I am using the xhrFields.
And in my node server I am responding with this: (notice I am including all the CORRS variables)
if ( request.headers.origin )
{
if ( request.headers.origin.match( /mydomain\.net/ ) || request.headers.origin.match( /appname\.mydomain\.com/ ) || request.headers.origin.match( /localhost/ )
|| request.headers.origin.match( /localhost\.com/ )
|| request.headers.origin.match( /localhost\.local/ )
|| request.headers.origin.match( /localtest\.com/ ) )
{
response.setHeader( 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin', request.headers.origin );
response.setHeader( 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET,PUT,POST,DELETE,OPTIONS' );
response.setHeader( 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'Content-Type, Authorization, Content-Length, X-Requested-With' );
response.setHeader( "Access-Control-Allow-Credentials", "true" );
};
}
response.writeHead( 200, { "Content-Type": "application/json" });
response.end( JSON.stringify( json ) );
}
I have also edited my windows hosts file to include these test domains so that I don't have to use an IP or localhost iteself:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 tooltest.com
127.0.0.1 localhost.com
127.0.0.1 localhost.local
But no matter what I do, or which of the above hosts I use, it never seems to work. It seems to only be related to localhost via ajax because if I go directly to the server url in question - it works.
EDIT 1
So for example - I open the client application and try to login to the server at foo.com/user/log-in. The headers for the request and response are as follows:
Request:
Remote Address:188.xxx.xxx.xx:7000
Request URL:https://foo.com:7000/user/log-in
Request Method:POST
Status Code:200 OK
Request Headersview source
Accept:undefined
Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language:en-GB,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.6
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Length:45
Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
Host:foo.com:7000
Origin:http://localhost
Referer:http://localhost/animate-ts/trunk/bin/
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36
Form Dataview sourceview URL encoded
user:mat
password:testpassword
rememberMe:true
Response:
Response Headersview source
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials:true
Access-Control-Allow-Headers:Content-Type, Authorization, Content-Length, X-Requested-With
Access-Control-Allow-Methods:GET,PUT,POST,DELETE,OPTIONS
Access-Control-Allow-Origin:http://localhost
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Type:application/json
Date:Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:14:21 GMT
Set-Cookie:SID=0xtW36rYCiV; path=/; expires=Tue, 24-Jun-2014 14:14:51 GMT; secure
Transfer-Encoding:chunked
As I undertand it, Foo.com has told the browser to store the cookie 0xtW36rYCiV. However when I make the very next request (foo.com/user/is-logged-in) to see if the user is logged in, no cookies are sent to foo. Foo.com looks for the cookie with the ID 0xtW36rYCiV but can't find anything. When I look at the 2nd request in dev tools I can see:
Does anyone have any other ideas? I thought I covered everything in the above, but im starting to think it just wont work :(
Thanks
Mat
My cookie isn't marked secure, and I'm facing this problem trying to send a GET request to my server (https://auth.mywebsite.com) from http://localhost:3000/.
I have the same auth flow as OP here.
First, sign in to auth.website.com, and receive back cookie in the response header:
set-cookie: Authorization=Bearer%20blahblah.blahblah.blahblah; Path=/; Expires=Wed, 05 Aug 2020 02:07:57 GMT; HttpOnly
Note, I don't have the Secure flag in set-cookie.
I noticed in Chrome devtools there was this warning that popped up when hovering over the set-cookie line:
"This Set-Cookie didn't specify a "SameSite" attribute and was defaulted to "SameSite=Lax," and was blocked because it came from a cross-site response which was not the response to a top-level navigation. The Set-Cookie had to have been set with "SameSite=None" to enable cross-site usage."
This might be the answer to my problem. But, I don't understand why this was working yesterday, but not today. No code has changed in between.
This issue occurs on both on Chrome and Safari.
The MDN docs has a good description of all the flags for Set-Cookie.
This is not a full answer, but perhaps some extra context for others facing similar issues.
I had this problem, but #aspillers commment lead to the solution for me. The cookie was marked secure, but I was doing the request over HTTP instead of HTTPS. Once I got my debugger switched over to HTTPS it started working.
For chrome:
Go to chrome://flags/
Disable "SameSite by default cookies"
Restart Chrome

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