I'm coming across an issue where I can't seem to set the headers for a fetch request and I think I'm missing something
var init = {
method: 'GET',
headers: {
'Accept': 'application/json',
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Authorization': 'Bearer myKey'
}
};
return fetch(url, init).then(function(response){...
When the request is inspected in the network tab, I'm not seeing the headers get set and instead see
Access-Control-Request-Headers:accept, authorization, content-type
when I would expect to see
Authorization: Bearer myKey
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json
I've also tried using the native Headers() with zero difference.
Am I missing something here?
I was having the same issue and took a bit of investigating this evening. The problem is cross-origin resource sharing / CORS. With Fetch it is the default and it makes things considerably more complex.
Unless Both the origin and destination are the same it is a cross-domain request, and these are only supported if the request is to a destination that supports CORS ( Cross-Origin Resource Sharing ). If it does not then it will not go through. You'll usually see an error like No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource
This is why you can not do Authorization headers on non-CORS sites; see #5 and basic headers
- https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-headers-guard
- https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#simple-header
FORBIDDEN HEADER NAMES:
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Forbidden_header_name
- https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#forbidden-header-name
And unfortunately, before you try the XMLHttpRequest route, the same applies:
This is the same with XMLHttpRequest:
- https://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#the-open()-method
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest
- http://arunranga.com/examples/access-control/credentialedRequest.html
Finally, your choices to move forward are:
1. JSONP
2. Write a proxy that is not in the browser
3. Put CORS on the destination server
This article sums it up nicely