Axios: Axios vs jQuery post CORS issue

[benjamingeorge]

When doing a CORS post request, jQuery succeeds but Axios gets a CORS error in the console.

This gets a CORS error

Axios.post(endpoint, { email_address : emailAddress})
      .then(function (response) {
        isSentSuccessful = true;
      })
      .catch(function (response) { 
        errorAnimation();
      });

But this works

    jQuery.post(endpoint, { email_address : emailAddress },
        function(resp){
         isSentSuccessful = true;
        })
        .fail(function(resp){
          errorAnimation();
        });

Am I missing something with Axios? My server is already configured for CORS requests.

[mzabriskie]

What is the error that you are getting?

[benjamingeorge]

XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://example/. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://example.dev' is therefore not allowed access. The response had HTTP status code 404.

is jQuery sending something that Axios isn't? Headers or preflight ?

[mzabriskie]

What browser are you using when you get this error?

[benjamingeorge]

Chrome 45

[mzabriskie]

Will you try making this request from your app, and let me know the result?

axios.get('https://api.github.com/users/benjamingeorge')
  .then(function (res) {
    console.log(res.data);
  })
  .catch(function(res) {
    if(res instanceof Error) {
      console.log(res.message);
    } else {
      console.log(res.data);
    }
  });

[benjamingeorge]

Sorry for the delay. I get an object back with all the data. Again, it's not get methods that are the problem, it's the POST method that has the issue.

[peterpuzos]

+1

[arpitHub]

+1

[anttti]

Stumbled upon this very same issue. jQuery AJAX POST works, Axios (and isomorphic-fetch FWIW) POSTs fail in the preflight phase. What's even more weird is if I "Copy as cURL" both of the requests from Chrome inspector's network tab, they're identical!

[HknL]

I had this problem as well, but I got it working now as I simply had Access-Control-Allow-Origin set up wrong on the server side. I suspect that the rest of you have this as well because jquery POST sends the requests as application/x-www-form-urlencoded as default, and thus doesn`t get preflighted. While axios correctly sends it as application/json and will be preflighted.

[rafaeleyng]

:+1:

[rafaeleyng]

I was setting up a little API to learn Grails. Doing a POST request, only by changing from jQuery to Axios, I went from getting this:

to this:

[ajacquelin]

+1

[peterpuzos]

Homyk -> What CORS setting did you change on the server side to properly accept application/json in preflight with AXIOS? Can you explain? For example, I am using Tomcat, and sending post requests "with credentials" and Axios is not working for us.

[HknL]

peterpuzos -> I`m using embedded Jetty, but an equivalent will exist for tomcat.

FilterHolder filter = new FilterHolder();
filter.setInitParameter("allowedOrigins", "*");
filter.setInitParameter("allowedMethods", "POST,GET,OPTIONS,PUT,DELETE,HEAD");
filter.setInitParameter("allowCredentials", "true");
CrossOriginFilter corsFilter = new CrossOriginFilter();
filter.setFilter(corsFilter);

allowedOrigins setting should have a specific IP in prod.

[peterpuzos]

Thanks for the advice. We actually managed to get it working after doing some reconfiguration (removed CXF from the equation). We can confirm that it doesn't seem to be an AXIOS issue at all! Cheers!

[mdarif]

+1

[dmavrin]

+1

[mcfa77y]

+1

[AndrejGajdos]

+1

[f14c0]

+1

[steelx]

+1

[leyume]

Another way to deal with this, especially if it worked in jQuery

var config = {
       headers: {
             'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
       },
       params: {
             email_address: emailAddress
       }
};
axios.post( endpoint, {}, config)
.then(function (response) {
       console.log(response);
})
.catch(function (response) {
       console.log(response);
});

From Homyk comment on Dec 9, 2015, was able to come up with this and it worked.

[steelx]

@leyume
still doesnt work, you can check it here, OPTIONS call goes thru, but POST call fails
https://reduxapp.herokuapp.com/signin

[pdewouters]

@steelx were you able to find a solution? I have the same issue, OPTIONS is successful. but POST throws an error.

EDIT: nevermind, was an issue with DB connection

[dhirajbasukala]

Spent almost a day testing POST request via Axios with unsuccessful result. The Jquery worked just out of the box. After trying out all suggested setting none worked and frustrating. Later I compared the data being sent by Axios POST and jquery POST and the source format in Chrome Dev Tool showed; jquery sent data in the url string fromat i.e., x=1&y=10&z=abc... while I was sending data via Axios as
json object {x:1, y:10,z:"abc"} as shown in examples. Later I changed it to url string format and it just worked. Hope it helps some one. However I don't know why it worked at first place, since all the examples in git repo shows sending json object in post requst.

[unuigbee]

Hi @dhirajbasukala I'm having the same issue. Can you post an example please?

[crazy4groovy]

+1 issue

[dhirajbasukala]

@unuigbee, below is example that worked for me.
axios.post(url,'key1=value1&key2=value2',{withCredentials: true}) .then((res)=>{console.log(res)) .catch((res)=>{console.log(res))

where as earlier JSON object being sent case didnt' work which was as below:
axios.post(url,{"key1":"value1","key2":"value2"},{withCredentials: true}) .then((res)=>{console.log(res)) .catch((res)=>{console.log(res))

I hope it helps.

[unuigbee]

@dhirajbasukala Thanks I tried it but it didn't work. I had to set Headers for Access-Control-Allow-Origin to all (*) on my dev server. I know it's not safe but I had to for testing purposes.

[hadv]

+1

[image72]

maybe you need check server accepts content type, I used angular $http from jquery.ajax encounter this problem.
just set like that

$httpProvider.defaults.headers.post['Content-Type'] = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=utf-8';

jquery v1 default content-type is 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=utf-8'

[rubennorte]

I'm closing this issue as it's the expected behaviour. We're considering adding a new parameter to automatically configure the content-type and the data parsing, but that's a different issue.

[afilp]

@rubennorte Is this automatic configuration implemented?

[afilp]

@mzabriskie Is the above automatic configuration idea about to be implemented? It appears that this makes it difficult to use axios, for certain use cases. Thanks in advance!

[asphalt2018]

I tried param like "a=3&b=4", it works

[Pau1fitz]

+1

[bboydflo]

as @leyume said, if it worked with jquery, than passing config object with headers
headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' },

fixed the problem for me. Also make sure to have "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" = "*" set on the server side.

[jartaud]

I've spent all night trying to make axios work. It always sends OPTIONS instead of POST and my CORS cofiguration gets ignored. Vue Resource works for me.

Vue.js 2 (front), Laravel 5.4 (api), Ubuntu (dev machine), Google Chrome & Firefox

[allexon]

HTTPS cors HTTP? Hello, how do I communicate using React axios. Accurate
Localhost request: https: appmix: 3001
Server: http://cepaberto.com.br/api/v2/cep.json?cep=xxxxxxxxx

[Jerjomins]

+1

[apurav2007]

+1

[jacekgalazka]

you can must use qs to serialize your data
const qs = require('qs'); const data = qs.stringify({ data1: 'a', data2: 'a', data3: 'a', }); axios.get('host', data, { 'Accept': 'application/json', 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin':'*' })

[reducio]

+1

[mkyukov]

+1

[maynardewm]

+1

[Ethan0007]

Hello,

I just want to ask if how can i do it in get request when in CORS?
it seems its not working when i tried this:

But when i used jquery get request, it allows me to access the api.

Thanks.

[travisC]

@Ethan0007 Swap your header to:

headers: { "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" },

Otherwise the server/api will need to accept application/json. See the example above for the backend fix in jetty:
https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/113#issuecomment-168160429