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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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Accepted Answer

@krksgbr what a coincidence, I was just about to post the solution to my own question. It turned out not to be a CORS issue at all (sorry about that DO), but related to the way the file was sent through Javascript. Apparently you have to wrap your file in a Blob object and not send it as a raw file (e.g. xhr.send(upload_file)) or through the FormData interface.

I managed to upload a file like this:

var blob = new Blob([upload_file], {type: f.upload_file}); var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); xhr.open(‘PUT’, v2_presigned_url); xhr.send(blob);

https://i.postimg.cc/QNykrWH6/Screen-Shot-2019-08-09-at-18-32-25.png

i have set Header name ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ and Origin * in spaces setting. My problem is that i am not getting header while accessing ‘https://schoolonapp.sgp1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/8mfd9df75gdemo_test/logo_iahwuhieo4.png’ in postman or chrome. What is the issue?

@al3x5 @krksgbr @johngannon

Hey, did you find a solution/explaination ? I’m stuck on this problem too, thanks

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