Asp MVC 5 app deployed on IIS 8.5. Need to enable ajax request from a number of clients.
Server-side I have In WebApiConfig.cs
config.EnableCors();
In controller:
[EnableCors(origins: "http://localhost:59901", headers: "*", methods: "*", SupportsCredentials = true)]
public class ItemController : Controller
Client side
$("#getItem").on("click", function (e) {
var myurl = "http://servername/item/details/1"
$.ajax({
url: myurl,
type: "GET",
dataType: "JSON",
xhrFields: {
withCredentials: true
},
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
error: function (jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
$('#result').text(jqXHR.responseText || textStatus);
},
success: function (result) {
$('#result').text(result);
}
});
});
Running client from VisualStudio Origin is http://localhost:59901.
Running the ajax request I get the following in fiddler:
1. Preflight request/response
OPTIONS http://vrtsrv01.webdev.local/item/details/1 HTTP/1.1
Host: vrtsrv01.webdev.local
Connection: keep-alive
Access-Control-Request-Method: GET
Origin: http://localhost:59901
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.133 Safari/537.36
Access-Control-Request-Headers: content-type
Accept: */*
Referer: http://localhost:59901/Home/Index
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,it;q=0.6,it-IT;q=0.4
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.5
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://localhost:59901
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept, MaxDataServiceVersion
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
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Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 15:34:54 GMT
Content-Length: 0
2. GET request without credentials/ 401 error response
GET http://vrtsrv01.webdev.local/item/details/1 HTTP/1.1
Host: vrtsrv01.webdev.local
Connection: keep-alive
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
Origin: http://localhost:59901
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.133 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Referer: http://localhost:59901/Home/Index
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,it;q=0.6,it-IT;q=0.4
HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html
Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.5
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate
WWW-Authenticate: NTLM
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Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 15:34:54 GMT
Content-Length: 1352
Proxy-Support: Session-Based-Authentication
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
<title>401 - Autorizzazione negata: accesso negato a causa di credenziali non valide.</title>
....
</head>
<body>
<div id="header"><h1>Errore del server</h1></div>
....
</body>
</html>
3. GET request with NTLM token for auth / response without Allow CORS header
GET http://vrtsrv01.webdev.local/item/details/1 HTTP/1.1
Host: vrtsrv01.webdev.local
Connection: keep-alive
Authorization: Negotiate <...NTLM TOKEN HERE ...>
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
Origin: http://localhost:59901
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.133 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Referer: http://localhost:59901/Home/Index
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,it;q=0.6,it-IT;q=0.4
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.5
X-AspNetMvc-Version: 5.2
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
Persistent-Auth: true
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Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 15:34:58 GMT
Content-Length: 8557
{"id":1, .....}
QUESTION
Why after enabling MVC app for CORS and seeing the right response to preflight request, the response obtained after NTLM authentication does not contain the expected Access-Control-Allow-Origin header?
SOLVED (...for now...) The invoked action was a controller action returning Json. This does not work with CORS. I need to create an API controller, cannot use the existing controller. This leads to code duplication, but I have no time now to refactor the whole application to use a single controller both for MVC and API