CORS Error: Angular.JS, Node.JS and Express

Question

Having issues getting data back from a http post request to an API I've been building. Throws the error:

XMLHttpRequest cannot load (URL to API here). No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:9000' is therefore not allowed access.

Here's the Angular code on the client side:

$http.post('MyAPI'sURLHere', {date: $scope.information.PubDate})
                    .then(function(response){
                        console.log(response);
                    }, function(error){
                        console.log(error);
                    });

And here's the Node server side code for my API:

app.post('/getThing', function(req, res){
        var date = req.body.date;
        console.log(typeof date);
        var query = Overquery
        var query2 = "alter session set nls_date_format = 'MM/dd/yyyy'";
        console.log(query);
        oracleDB.execute(query2, function(err, result){
                if(err){
                        console.log(err.message);
                }
                else{
                        console.log(result);
                }
        });
        oracleDB.execute(query, function(err, result){
                if(err){
                        console.log(err.message);
                }
                else{
                        res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');
                        res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'POST');
                        res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'Content-Type, Authorization');
                        console.log(result.rows);
                        res.json(result.rows);
                }
        });
});

First time building an API so any suggestions and help would be greatly appreciated!

You're properly setting cors headers for the POST request, however, you're likely not properly responding to the OPTIONS request that comes before the post request in some cases. — Kevin B, Aug 26 '15 at 21:56

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 16 '16 at 00:24

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Run the following in your project from a bash shell:

npm install cors --save

It will install this: https://github.com/expressjs/cors

Then add this to your server when creating the app.

var express = require('express');
var cors = require('cors');
var app = express();
app.use(cors());

Edit: This will enable CORS for every domain wich is not recomended for security reasons. Check here for further CORS configuration: https://github.com/expressjs/cors#configuring-cors

edited Jun 16 '16 at 00:24

rahuL islam

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answered Aug 26 '15 at 21:53

Alfonso Presa

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Do not forget use cord before defining routes in your app.js – Archil Labadze Oct 11 '18 at 22:49

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 27 '15 at 07:02

In your node application, this sample of code should solve your issues:

// Allowing X-domain request
var allowCrossDomain = function(req, res, next) {
    res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
    res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET,PUT,POST,DELETE');
    res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept, Cache-Control");

    // intercept OPTIONS method
    if ('OPTIONS' == req.method) {
      res.send(200);
    }
    else {
      next();
    }
};
app.use(allowCrossDomain);

this one worked for me. can you add some explanation about this? and if it is safe for production ? — Zameer Fouzan, Aug 07 '19 at 13:48

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