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cors error when request from chrome extension

Posted on January 11, 2023

when in dev environment, the origin is http://localhost:5173, it’s ok. when in prod environment, the request origin is chrome-extension://xxxxx, it’s not ok, an cors error occur.



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Hi there,

The problem is that the origin is not recognized by the server as a valid origin, causing the CORS error. In your case, when running in a development environment, the requests are being made from http://localhost:5173, which is a standard origin for local development. However, in a production environment, the requests are being made from a chrome extension, which has an origin of chrome-extension://xxxxx.

To resolve this issue, you’ll need to configure your server to allow requests from the chrome extension origin. You can do this by setting the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header on your server to the value of chrome-extension://xxxxx. Some framework like express have a package to handle CORS:

https://expressjs.com/en/resources/middleware/cors.html

If you are using Nginx, you can follow the steps here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-do-i-enable-cors-on-ubuntu-20-4-with-nginx

Feel free to share more details on your production setup.

Best,

Bobby

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