Making golang Gorilla CORS handler work

Question

I have fairly simple setup here as described in the code below. But I am not able to get the CORS to work. I keep getting this error:

XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://localhost:3000/signup. Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access- Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:8000' is therefore not allowed access. The response had HTTP status code 403.

I am sure I am missing something simple here.

Here is the code I have:

package main

import (
    "log"
    "net/http"

    "github.com/gorilla/handlers"
    "github.com/gorilla/mux"
    "myApp/src/controllers"
)

func main() {
    ac := new(controllers.AccountController)

    router := mux.NewRouter()
    router.HandleFunc("/signup", ac.SignUp).Methods("POST")
    router.HandleFunc("/signin", ac.SignIn).Methods("POST")

    log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":3000", handlers.CORS()(router)))
}

Answer 1

Please read the link Markus suggested, and also about what triggers CORS pre-flight requests.

Pre-flight requests: You may have a content type like JSON, or some other custom header that's triggering a pre-flight request, which your server may not be handling. Try adding this one, if you're using the ever-common AJAX in your front-end: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields#Requested-With

Gorilla's handlers.CORS() will set sane defaults to get the basics of CORS working for you; however, you can (and maybe should) take control in a more functional manner.

Here's some starter code:

headersOk := handlers.AllowedHeaders([]string{"X-Requested-With"})
originsOk := handlers.AllowedOrigins([]string{os.Getenv("ORIGIN_ALLOWED")})
methodsOk := handlers.AllowedMethods([]string{"GET", "HEAD", "POST", "PUT", "OPTIONS"})

// start server listen
// with error handling
log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":" + os.Getenv("PORT"), handlers.CORS(originsOk, headersOk, methodsOk)(router)))

Answer 2

You can get more details here: "No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource" about this issue.

Also try this handler: Go Cors Handler which should solve your issue. I find this much cleaner and easy to resolve the issue.

package main

import (
    "log"
    "net/http"
    "github.com/rs/cors"
    "github.com/gorilla/handlers"
    "github.com/gorilla/mux"
    "myApp/src/controllers"
)

func main() {
    ac := new(controllers.AccountController)

    router := mux.NewRouter()
    router.HandleFunc("/signup", ac.SignUp).Methods("POST")
    router.HandleFunc("/signin", ac.SignIn).Methods("POST")

    c := cors.New(cors.Options{
    AllowedOrigins: []string{"http://localhost:8000"},
    AllowCredentials: true,
    })

    handler := c.Handler(router)

    log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":3000", handler )
}

Answer 3

You should create a CORSOption object. For example to allow any origin, Use this code:

corsObj:=handlers.AllowedOrigins([]string{"*"})

Then you pass this object to your handle.CORS function:

log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":3000", handlers.CORS(corsObj)(router)))

For testing it you can use CURL:

curl -H "Origin: http://example.com" \
-H "Access-Control-Request-Method: POST" \
-H "Access-Control-Request-Headers: X-Requested-With" \
-X OPTIONS --verbose http://127.0.0.1:3000

When it works you should see those headers:

> Accept: */*
> Origin: http://example.com
> Access-Control-Request-Method: POST
> Access-Control-Request-Headers: X-Requested-With

---

Final code is here: https://play.golang.org/p/AOrlJsWhvf

More info:

• AllowedOrigin function
• How can you debug a CORS request with cURL?

Answer 4

package main

import (
    "log"
    "net/http"

    "github.com/gorilla/handlers"
    "github.com/gorilla/mux"
    "myApp/src/controllers"
       "github.com/rs/cors"
)

func main() {

     ac := new(controllers.AccountController)

    router := mux.NewRouter()
    router.HandleFunc("/signup", ac.SignUp).Methods("POST")
    router.HandleFunc("/signin", ac.SignIn).Methods("POST")
//cors optionsGoes Below
corsOpts := cors.New(cors.Options{
    AllowedOrigins: []string{"http://localhost:8100"}, //you service is available and allowed for this base url 
    AllowedMethods: []string{
        http.MethodGet,//http methods for your app
        http.MethodPost,
        http.MethodPut,
        http.MethodPatch,
        http.MethodDelete,
        http.MethodOptions,
        http.MethodHead,
    },

    AllowedHeaders: []string{
        "*",//or you can your header key values which you are using in your application

    },
})

    http.ListenAndServe(":3000", corsOpts.Handler(router))
}