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Node.js cross-origin POST. You should response for OPTIONS request first. Something like this.
if (req.method === 'OPTIONS') {
console.log('!OPTIONS');
var headers = {};
// IE8 does not allow domains to be specified, just the *
// headers["Access-Control-Allow-Origin"] = req.headers.origin;
headers["Access-Control-Allow-Origin"] = "*";
headers["Access-Control-Allow-Methods"] = "POST, GET, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS";
headers["Access-Control-Allow-Credentials"] = false;
headers["Access-Control-Max-Age"] = '86400'; // 24 hours
headers["Access-Control-Allow-Headers"] = "X-Requested-With, X-HTTP-Method-Override, Content-Type, Accept";
res.writeHead(200, headers);
res.end();
} else {
//...other requests
}
@moussahoumani
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Wow I like this code very much but was the else statement really necessary if you weren't going to put any code inside, just saying you could of saved a couple lines of code and made the program a bit shorter, Besides that I liked it good job.

@ChristianRich
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Totally works. Thanks!

@mrmurphy
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Super

@micahblu
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it actually works :)

@matsilva
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Wow its moments like these that I remember that i 'know nothing!' Thanks!

@UstymUkhman
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Thank a lot! I've spent hours to make that work without extentions.

@Qblack
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Qblack commented Jun 28, 2015

Thank you, this works great but apparently if you trying to pass a token on the GET you may still need to add Authorization to the list of accepted Headers.

@Erichain
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Thank you very much.
But when I use your code to my app, it still says there is a CORS problem.
If I write as this ( put the headers code outside the if condition ):

var app = http.createServer(function ( req, res, next ) {
    var headers = {};

    // set header to handle the CORS
    headers['Access-Control-Allow-Origin'] = '*';
    headers['Access-Control-Allow-Headers'] = 'Content-Type, Content-Length, Authorization, Accept, X-Requested-With';
    headers['Access-Contrl-Allow-Methods'] = 'PUT, POST, GET, DELETE, OPTIONS';
    headers["Access-Control-Max-Age"] = '86400';
    res.writeHead(200, headers);

    if ( req.method === 'OPTIONS' ) {
        console.log('OPTIONS SUCCESS');
        res.end();
    }
    else {
        //other requests
    }
});

The problem disappears.

@forl
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forl commented Mar 26, 2016

Great! this helped me a lot .

@ninjasort
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@DavidKahnt
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#awesome

@harihasr
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Thanks a ton for this! It saved me some sleepless nights

@victor737-max
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victor737-max commented Jul 3, 2017

works fine in Chrome, but not in FF !
To work in FireFox : "Access-Control-Allow-Headers" must also have 'cache-control'.
found it in http://help.octopusdeploy.com/discussions/problems/30952-set-access-control-allow-origin.
I could not find any doc, but it works for me: FF 54.0 Ubuntu - Node.js 6.9.5 Ubuntu.

@lostation
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lostation commented Aug 6, 2017

@nilcolor @cameronroe YOU SAVED ME ! THANKS A LOT !!! I spent 2 days on fu** issues of preflight...

@falsy
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falsy commented Feb 22, 2018

@nilcolor @cameronroe Thank you! This is the information I really wanted!

@mirzaumersaleem
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+1 thanks man save my time and searches

@vaultdev2017
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Thanks...
this saves my time.....

@lekhoi
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lekhoi commented Jun 2, 2018

Thank you for the code, saved my weekend :-)

@guruprasad211
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i am not able to solve, my frontend is angularjs 5, searching for solution from last 5 days, please help

@rsbrum
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rsbrum commented Jun 25, 2018

@shivarajnaidu
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Simply we can use app.use(cors()) for node module

@heyjoy21
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Thanks much !! you saved alot of time..

@mazzespazze
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From a noob. Where should you put such a code?

@Asaf-S
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Asaf-S commented Oct 3, 2019

Thanks!

From a noob. Where should you put such a code?

const express = require('express');
express()
.options('', (req, res) => {
console.log('OPTIONS request!');
var headers = {};
headers["Access-Control-Allow-Origin"] = "
";
headers["Access-Control-Allow-Methods"] = "POST, GET, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS";
headers["Access-Control-Allow-Credentials"] = false;
headers["Access-Control-Max-Age"] = '86400'; // 24 hours
headers["Access-Control-Allow-Headers"] = "X-Requested-With, X-HTTP-Method-Override, Content-Type, Accept, Authorization, cache-control";
res.writeHead(200, headers);
res.end();
})

@semtagg
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semtagg commented Mar 31, 2022

+1

@bobbyconnolly
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9 years later, this post saved me ❤

@ZHAOYANG291
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my hero!

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