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Jackson Kasi
Jackson Kasi

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How to fix AWS Lambda & API Gateway cors Error

I have been working, with my client( developer ), in AWS Lambda & API-Gateway.

Now we face a cors error while calling API-endpoint in React-JS ( post method ), we tried lots of ways to fix the cors but doesn't work.

NOTE: This API endpoint works fine in postman. but throw cors only in React-JS applications.

Please Help me, anyone.

Thanks

In my code:

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NOT WORK API - CORS ERROR: ( in react js )

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Error:

Access to fetch at 'https://xxx_id_xxx.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/xxxx/post/target/page' from origin 'http://localhost:3000' has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.

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Mykezero

Sounds like you're missing something on the API Gateway side of things.

You'll need two API Methods for the CORS: OPTIONS and POST.

Options Method

For OPTIONS, you'll want to make sure that the Method Response section contains the following headers:

  • Access-Control-Allow-Headers
  • Access-Control-Allow-Methods
  • Access-Control-Allow-Origin

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Next, you'll want to configure the Integration Response section for the OPTIONS method, to include the values

  • Access-Control-Allow-Headers: 'Content-Type'
  • Access-Control-Allow-Methods: 'OPTIONS,POST'
  • Access-Control-Allow-Origin: '*'

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Post Method

For POST, you'll want to make sure that the Method Response section contains the following headers:

  • Access-Control-Allow-Origin

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Next, you'll want to configure the Integration Response section for the POST method, to include the values:

  • Access-Control-Allow-Origin: '*'

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With that in place, you should be able to call API gateway using Axios by doing the following:

import axios from "axios";

(async () => {
  const result = await axios.post("https://3xqqgy12ga.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Test/testwithcorsenabled", null, {
    headers: {
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    }
  });
  console.log(result);
})().catch(e => {
});
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Notice that 'Content-Type' was one of the allowed headers in the OPTIONS Integration Response section.

On success, the browser dev tools should show an OPTIONS request being fired and then a POST right after:

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My approach would be to spin up a test API Gateway, decide what headers you'll need back and incrementally add / test them using Axios for the POST.

Hopefully this helps a little bit ^^

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Jackson Kasi • Edited

Really thanks for spending your time to help me. Its now work :)

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Dan

AWS Serverless Advocates built a tool to help people configure CORS

CORS configurator

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Jackson Kasi

Hey thanks 😊, I really like this website. Its really help full✨