CORS header proxy
Add the necessary CORS headers to a third party API response.
export default { async fetch(request) { const corsHeaders = { "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*", "Access-Control-Allow-Methods": "GET,HEAD,POST,OPTIONS", "Access-Control-Max-Age": "86400", };
// The URL for the remote third party API you want to fetch from // but does not implement CORS const API_URL = "https://examples.cloudflareworkers.com/demos/demoapi";
// The endpoint you want the CORS reverse proxy to be on const PROXY_ENDPOINT = "/corsproxy/";
// The rest of this snippet for the demo page function rawHtmlResponse(html) { return new Response(html, { headers: { "content-type": "text/html;charset=UTF-8", }, }); }
const DEMO_PAGE = ` <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <h1>API GET without CORS Proxy</h1> <a target="_blank" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API/Using_Fetch#Checking_that_the_fetch_was_successful">Shows TypeError: Failed to fetch since CORS is misconfigured</a> <p id="noproxy-status"/> <code id="noproxy">Waiting</code> <h1>API GET with CORS Proxy</h1> <p id="proxy-status"/> <code id="proxy">Waiting</code> <h1>API POST with CORS Proxy + Preflight</h1> <p id="proxypreflight-status"/> <code id="proxypreflight">Waiting</code> <script> let reqs = {}; reqs.noproxy = () => { return fetch("${API_URL}").then(r => r.json()) } reqs.proxy = async () => { let href = "${PROXY_ENDPOINT}?apiurl=${API_URL}" return fetch(window.location.origin + href).then(r => r.json()) } reqs.proxypreflight = async () => { let href = "${PROXY_ENDPOINT}?apiurl=${API_URL}" let response = await fetch(window.location.origin + href, { method: "POST", headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" }, body: JSON.stringify({ msg: "Hello world!" }) }) return response.json() } (async () => { for (const [reqName, req] of Object.entries(reqs)) { try { let data = await req() document.getElementById(reqName).innerHTML = JSON.stringify(data) } catch (e) { document.getElementById(reqName).innerHTML = e } } })() </script> </body> </html> `;
async function handleRequest(request) { const url = new URL(request.url); let apiUrl = url.searchParams.get("apiurl");
if (apiUrl == null) { apiUrl = API_URL; }
// Rewrite request to point to API URL. This also makes the request mutable // so you can add the correct Origin header to make the API server think // that this request is not cross-site. request = new Request(apiUrl, request); request.headers.set("Origin", new URL(apiUrl).origin); let response = await fetch(request); // Recreate the response so you can modify the headers
response = new Response(response.body, response); // Set CORS headers
response.headers.set("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", url.origin);
// Append to/Add Vary header so browser will cache response correctly response.headers.append("Vary", "Origin");
return response; }
async function handleOptions(request) { if ( request.headers.get("Origin") !== null && request.headers.get("Access-Control-Request-Method") !== null && request.headers.get("Access-Control-Request-Headers") !== null ) { // Handle CORS preflight requests. return new Response(null, { headers: { ...corsHeaders, "Access-Control-Allow-Headers": request.headers.get( "Access-Control-Request-Headers" ), }, }); } else { // Handle standard OPTIONS request. return new Response(null, { headers: { Allow: "GET, HEAD, POST, OPTIONS", }, }); } }
const url = new URL(request.url); if (url.pathname.startsWith(PROXY_ENDPOINT)) { if (request.method === "OPTIONS") { // Handle CORS preflight requests return handleOptions(request); } else if ( request.method === "GET" || request.method === "HEAD" || request.method === "POST" ) { // Handle requests to the API server return handleRequest(request); } else { return new Response(null, { status: 405, statusText: "Method Not Allowed", }); } } else { return rawHtmlResponse(DEMO_PAGE); } },
};
const handler: ExportedHandler = { async fetch(request) { const corsHeaders = { "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*", "Access-Control-Allow-Methods": "GET,HEAD,POST,OPTIONS", "Access-Control-Max-Age": "86400", };
// The URL for the remote third party API you want to fetch from // but does not implement CORS const API_URL = "https://examples.cloudflareworkers.com/demos/demoapi";
// The endpoint you want the CORS reverse proxy to be on const PROXY_ENDPOINT = "/corsproxy/";
// The rest of this snippet for the demo page function rawHtmlResponse(html) { return new Response(html, { headers: { "content-type": "text/html;charset=UTF-8", }, }); }
const DEMO_PAGE = ` <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <h1>API GET without CORS Proxy</h1> <a target="_blank" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API/Using_Fetch#Checking_that_the_fetch_was_successful">Shows TypeError: Failed to fetch since CORS is misconfigured</a> <p id="noproxy-status"/> <code id="noproxy">Waiting</code> <h1>API GET with CORS Proxy</h1> <p id="proxy-status"/> <code id="proxy">Waiting</code> <h1>API POST with CORS Proxy + Preflight</h1> <p id="proxypreflight-status"/> <code id="proxypreflight">Waiting</code> <script> let reqs = {}; reqs.noproxy = () => { return fetch("${API_URL}").then(r => r.json()) } reqs.proxy = async () => { let href = "${PROXY_ENDPOINT}?apiurl=${API_URL}" return fetch(window.location.origin + href).then(r => r.json()) } reqs.proxypreflight = async () => { let href = "${PROXY_ENDPOINT}?apiurl=${API_URL}" let response = await fetch(window.location.origin + href, { method: "POST", headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" }, body: JSON.stringify({ msg: "Hello world!" }) }) return response.json() } (async () => { for (const [reqName, req] of Object.entries(reqs)) { try { let data = await req() document.getElementById(reqName).innerHTML = JSON.stringify(data) } catch (e) { document.getElementById(reqName).innerHTML = e } } })() </script> </body> </html> `;
async function handleRequest(request) { const url = new URL(request.url); let apiUrl = url.searchParams.get("apiurl");
if (apiUrl == null) { apiUrl = API_URL; }
// Rewrite request to point to API URL. This also makes the request mutable // so you can add the correct Origin header to make the API server think // that this request is not cross-site. request = new Request(apiUrl, request); request.headers.set("Origin", new URL(apiUrl).origin); let response = await fetch(request); // Recreate the response so you can modify the headers
response = new Response(response.body, response); // Set CORS headers
response.headers.set("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", url.origin);
// Append to/Add Vary header so browser will cache response correctly response.headers.append("Vary", "Origin");
return response; }
async function handleOptions(request) { if ( request.headers.get("Origin") !== null && request.headers.get("Access-Control-Request-Method") !== null && request.headers.get("Access-Control-Request-Headers") !== null ) { // Handle CORS preflight requests. return new Response(null, { headers: { ...corsHeaders, "Access-Control-Allow-Headers": request.headers.get( "Access-Control-Request-Headers" ), }, }); } else { // Handle standard OPTIONS request. return new Response(null, { headers: { Allow: "GET, HEAD, POST, OPTIONS", }, }); } }
const url = new URL(request.url); if (url.pathname.startsWith(PROXY_ENDPOINT)) { if (request.method === "OPTIONS") { // Handle CORS preflight requests return handleOptions(request); } else if ( request.method === "GET" || request.method === "HEAD" || request.method === "POST" ) { // Handle requests to the API server return handleRequest(request); } else { return new Response(null, { status: 405, statusText: "Method Not Allowed", }); } } else { return rawHtmlResponse(DEMO_PAGE); } },
};
export default handler;