Question
XMLHttpRequest file upload to Spaces fails due to CORS issue
I’m trying to upload a file to Spaces using XMLHttpRequest with a pre-signed url generated by the boto3 Python library. I’m using the v2 signature type as the AWS v4 signature is not supported (yet). (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/signed-urls-for-private-objects-in-spaces)
Performing an upload from the command line using the pre-signed url is working fine. However when doing a PUT request through an XMLHttpRequest object in Javascript I’m getting an CORS related error (“No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource. Origin ’http://XXX’ is therefore not allowed access”)
I have enabled CORS policies for this particular host like this:
<CORSConfiguration>
<CORSRule>
<AllowedOrigin>http://XXX</AllowedOrigin>
<AllowedMethod>GET</AllowedMethod>
<AllowedMethod>PUT</AllowedMethod>
<AllowedMethod>POST</AllowedMethod>
<AllowedHeader>*</AllowedHeader>
</CORSRule>
</CORSConfiguration>
The preflight OPTIONS http request actually returns the appropriate headers like this:
Access-Control-Allow-Headers:content-type
Access-Control-Allow-Methods:PUT
Access-Control-Allow-Origin:http://XXX
Content-Length:0
Date:Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:41:08 GMT
Strict-Transport-Security:max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains; preload
Vary:Origin
x-amz-request-id:tx000000000000003236214-005a0c6014-7ded-ams3a
In the actual PUT request which upload the file payload the headers returned by the Digital Ocean does not return the required Acces-Control-Allow-Origin header though:
Accept-Ranges:bytes
Content-Length:187
Content-Type:application/xml
Date:Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:41:08 GMT
Strict-Transport-Security:max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-amz-request-id:tx00000000000000323b494-005a0c6014-ae42-ams3a
This finally results in a 403 Forbidden error. I’m really in the dark on this one, any insight would be highly appreciated..
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