I'm building a frontend app with React and Redux and I'm using axios to perform my requests. I would like to get access to all the fields in the header of the response. In my browser I can inspect the header and I can see that all the fields that I need are present(such as token, uid, etc...), but when I call
const request = axios.post(`${ROOT_URL}/auth/sign_in`, props);
request.then((response)=>{
console.log(response.headers);
});
I get just
Object {content-type: "application/json; charset=utf-8", cache-control: "max-age=0, private, must-revalidate"}
Here my browser network tab,as you can see all the other fields are present.
Bests.
In case of CORS requests, browsers can only access the following response headers by default:
- Cache-Control
- Content-Language
- Content-Type
- Expires
- Last-Modified
- Pragma
If you would like your client app to be able to access other headers, you need to set the Access-Control-Expose-Headers header on the server:
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: Access-Token, Uid
This really helped me, thanks Nick Uraltsev for your answer.
For those of you using nodejs with cors:
...
const cors = require('cors');
const corsOptions = {
exposedHeaders: 'Authorization',
};
app.use(cors(corsOptions));
...
In the case you are sending the response in the way of res.header('Authorization', `Bearer ${token}`).send();
I was facing the same problem. Y did this in my "WebSecurity.java", it's about the setExposedHeaders method in the cors configuration.
@Bean
CorsConfigurationSource corsConfigurationSource() {
CorsConfiguration configuration = new CorsConfiguration();
configuration.setAllowCredentials(true);
configuration.setAllowedOrigins(Arrays.asList(FRONT_END_SERVER));
configuration.setAllowedMethods(Arrays.asList("GET", "POST", "PUT", "DELETE"));
configuration.setAllowedHeaders(Arrays.asList("X-Requested-With","Origin","Content-Type","Accept","Authorization"));
// This allow us to expose the headers
configuration.setExposedHeaders(Arrays.asList("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Authorization, x-xsrf-token, Access-Control-Allow-Headers, Origin, Accept, X-Requested-With, " +
"Content-Type, Access-Control-Request-Method, Access-Control-Request-Headers"));
UrlBasedCorsConfigurationSource source = new UrlBasedCorsConfigurationSource();
source.registerCorsConfiguration("/**", configuration);
return source;
}
I hope it works.