I want to set a default http header in my tomcat container -
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
From various different links on stackoverslow and from google, most have pointed to a resource. This again says same on how to do it. I have replicated the same, but still the header is not shown.
This is what I have done:
1) Copied cors.jar file in /lib folder of tomcat
2) Inserted this text in web.xml
<filter>
<filter-name>CORS</filter-name>
<filter-class>com.thetransactioncompany.cors.CORSFilter</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>cors.allowOrigin</param-name>
<param-value>*</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>cors.supportedMethods</param-name>
<param-value>GET, POST, HEAD, PUT, DELETE</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>cors.supportedHeaders</param-name>
<param-value>Content-Type, Last-Modified</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>cors.exposedHeaders</param-name>
<param-value>Set-Cookie</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>cors.supportsCredentials</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>CORS</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
It doesn't work and I am helpless. My tomcat version is -6.0.6. Please help.
At the time of writing this, the current version of Tomcat 7 (7.0.41) has a built-in CORS filter http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/filter.html#CORS_Filter
The issue arose because of not including jar
file as part of the project. I was just including it in tomcat lib. Using the below in web.xml
works now:
<filter>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<filter-class>
org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy
</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter>
<filter-name>CORS</filter-name>
<filter-class>com.thetransactioncompany.cors.CORSFilter</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>cors.allowOrigin</param-name>
<param-value>*</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>cors.supportsCredentials</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>cors.supportedHeaders</param-name>
<param-value>accept, authorization, origin</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>cors.supportedMethods</param-name>
<param-value>GET, POST, HEAD, OPTIONS</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>CORS</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
And the below in your project dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.thetransactioncompany</groupId>
<artifactId>cors-filter</artifactId>
<version>1.3.2</version>
</dependency>
Change this:
<init-param>
<param-name>cors.supportedHeaders</param-name>
<param-value>Content-Type, Last-Modified</param-value>
</init-param>
To this
<init-param>
<param-name>cors.supportedHeaders</param-name>
<param-value>Accept, Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Last-Modified</param-value>
</init-param>
I had to do this to get anything to work.
Please check your web.xml again. You might be making some silly mistake. As my application is working fine with the same init-param configuration...
Please copy paste the web.xml, if the problem still persists.
Try this.
1.write a custom filter
package com.dtd.util;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import java.io.IOException;
public class CORSFilter implements Filter {
@Override
public void init(FilterConfig filterConfig) throws ServletException {
}
@Override
public void doFilter(ServletRequest servletRequest, ServletResponse servletResponse, FilterChain filterChain) throws IOException, ServletException {
HttpServletResponse httpResponse = (HttpServletResponse) servletResponse;
httpResponse.addHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
filterChain.doFilter(servletRequest, servletResponse);
}
@Override
public void destroy() {
}
}
2.add to web.xml
<filter>
<filter-name>CorsFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>com.dtd.util.CORSFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>CorsFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
I had to restart the browser after changing the ip address (laptop wireless DHCP) which was my "cross-host" I was referring to in my web app, which resolved the issue.
Also make sure all the cors headers being added by your browser/host are accepted/allowed by including then in the cors.allowed.headers