fetch() does not send headers?

Question

I am sending POST request like this from browser:

fetch(serverEndpoint, {
    method: 'POST',
    mode: 'no-cors', // this is to prevent browser from sending 'OPTIONS' method request first
    redirect: 'follow',
    headers: new Headers({
            'Content-Type': 'text/plain',
            'X-My-Custom-Header': 'value-v',
            'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + token,
    }),
    body: companyName
})

By the time the request reaches my back-end it does not contain X-My-Custom-Header nor Authorization header.

My back-end is Google Cloud function for Firebase (basically just Node.js endpoint) that looks like this:

exports.createCompany = functions.https.onRequest((req, res) => {
    let headers = ['Headers: ']
    for (let header in req.headers) {
        headers.push(`${header} : ${req.headers[header]}`)
    }
    console.log(headers)
    ...
}

The console log of that Google Cloud for Firebase function does not contain any X-My-Custom-Header nor Authorization header.

What is wrong?

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Edit 1

So using dev tools in Chrome a checked that neither X-My-Custom-Header nor Authorization header is send from the browser... The questions now are: Why? How do I fix it?

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Edit 2

More information about my app: It's React app. I have disabled service worker. I have tried to create Request and specifically add headers using req.headers.append(). The headers still wouldn't send.

Answer 1

The same-origin policy restricts the kinds of requests that a Web page can send to resources from another origin.

In the no-cors mode, the browser is limited to sending “simple” requests — those with safelisted methods and safelisted headers only.

To send a cross-origin request with headers like Authorization and X-My-Custom-Header, you have to drop the no-cors mode and support preflight requests (OPTIONS).

The distinction between “simple” and “non-simple” requests is for historical reasons. Web pages could always perform some cross-origin requests through various means (such as creating and submitting a form), so when Web browsers introduced a principled means of sending cross-origin requests (cross-origin resource sharing, or CORS), it was decided that such “simple” requests could be exempt from the preflight OPTIONS check.

Answer 2

Firstly : Use an object instead of new Headers(..):

fetch('www.example.net', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'text/plain',
    'X-My-Custom-Header': 'value-v',
    'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + token,
  }
});

Secondly : Good to know, headers are lowercased by fetch!!

Thirdly : no-cors mode limits the use of headers to this white list :

• Accept
• Accept-Language
• Content-Language
• Content-Type and whose value is ( application/x-www-form-urlencoded, multipart/form-data, text/plain )

That's why only your Content-Type header is sent and not X-My-Custom-Header or Authorization.

Answer 3

Can you try this?

fetch(serverEndpoint, {  
  credentials: 'include'  
})

Ref. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/introduction-to-fetch#sending_credentials_with_a_fetch_request

Answer 4

1st: when you call headers in your exports.createCompany function, you have let headers = ['Headers: '] with a capital H instead of lowercase h which might cause errors. you also have a comma after token in the headers which shouldn't be there.

2nd: everytime i have used fetch requests in react native, the header: doesn't need the new Headers on it.

try this: fetch(serverEndpoint, { method: 'POST', mode: 'no-cors', redirect: 'follow', headers:{ 'Content-Type': 'text/plain', 'X-My-Custom-Header': 'value-v', 'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + token }, body: companyName })

Answer 5

I also had this same issue. I resolved it by removing 'no-cors' from javascript and adding the following in server side spring boot.

public class WebSecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
        protected void configure(HttpSecurity httpSecurity) throws Exception {
             .antMatchers(HttpMethod.OPTIONS, "/**").permitAll()

        }
    }