Azure Storage Emulator 403 Forbidden

Question

Via Nuget, I upgraded WindowsAzure.Storage to 8.1.1.

I then downloaded the AzureStorageEmulator 5.1.0.0 client.

My connection string:

UseDevelopmentStorage=true;

I've made no code changes since previously when it was apparently working fine. I know get the exception:

Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.StorageException: The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden. ---> System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.
   at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
   at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Core.Executor.Executor.ExecuteSync[T](RESTCommand`1 cmd, IRetryPolicy policy, OperationContext operationContext) in c:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\release_dotnet_master\Lib\ClassLibraryCommon\Core\Executor\Executor.cs:line 677
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Core.Executor.Executor.ExecuteSync[T](RESTCommand`1 cmd, IRetryPolicy policy, OperationContext operationContext) in c:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\release_dotnet_master\Lib\ClassLibraryCommon\Core\Executor\Executor.cs:line 604
   at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Blob.CloudBlobContainer.CreateIfNotExists(BlobContainerPublicAccessType accessType, BlobRequestOptions requestOptions, OperationContext operationContext) in c:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\release_dotnet_master\Lib\ClassLibraryCommon\Blob\CloudBlobContainer.cs:line 233
   at C3.Code.Controls.Application.Storage.Blob.Blob.GetContainer(String containerName) in C:\Dropbox\Dropbox (Scirra Ltd)\Tom\C3 Website\C3Alpha2\Code\Controls\Application\Storage\Blob\Blob.cs:line 112
Request Information
RequestID:621bc19f-eb6a-4a98-b19e-f5b01ac22c26
RequestDate:Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:17:34 GMT
StatusMessage:Server failed to authenticate the request. Make sure the value of Authorization header is formed correctly including the signature.
ErrorCode:AuthenticationFailed
ErrorMessage:Server failed to authenticate the request. Make sure the value of Authorization header is formed correctly including the signature.
RequestId:621bc19f-eb6a-4a98-b19e-f5b01ac22c26
Time:2017-04-27T16:17:34.5166522Z

When I call

var blobClient = GetClient();
var container = blobClient.GetContainerReference(containerName);
container.CreateIfNotExists(BlobContainerPublicAccessType.Blob);

I saw that system time can impact this, so I checked:

Server DateTime.UtcNow = 27/04/2017 16:17:34
Exception RequestDate = Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:17:34 GMT

Any ideas why I'm seeing this error after updating the client and the nuget package?

Edit: GetClient() Code:

private static CloudBlobClient GetClient()
{
    var account = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(Settings.Deployment.AzureConnectionString);
    return account.CreateCloudBlobClient();
}

Edit: BaseUri

Base URI is: http://127.0.0.1:10000/devstoreaccount1

Visit this I get:

<Error>
<Code>InvalidQueryParameterValue</Code>
<Message>
Value for one of the query parameters specified in the request URI is invalid. RequestId:9cc906b0-eec6-44b2-bb3d-f77020af4a4c Time:2017-04-27T16:43:16.8538679Z
</Message>
<QueryParameterName>comp</QueryParameterName>
<QueryParameterValue/>
<Reason/>
</Error>

During storage emulator init, it shows it's installed it to:
(localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB as AzureStorageEmulatorDb51

Visiting: http://127.0.0.1:10000/azurestorageemulatordb51

Shows:

<Error>
<Code>OutOfRangeInput</Code>
<Message>
One of the request inputs is out of range. RequestId:dab5e6c1-bc4a-4c65-a4d9-6d44634cb36a Time:2017-04-27T16:47:20.3093597Z
</Message>
</Error>

Answer 1

I had the same problem and also tried downgrading WindowsAzure.Storage without success. After a long day of trying to disable everyting I discovered that removing this line from startup.cs fixed the problem:

services.AddApplicationInsightsTelemetry(configuration);

I don't know why these are related and why ApplicationInsights causes problems for Azure storage. I have tried using both version 2.1.0-beta2 and 2.0.0 of Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.AspNetCore and both cause the 403 error.

Answer 2

You can resolve this issue for Application Insights version 2.4.0 by modifying the ApplicationInsights.config file and adding the localhost in to the ExcludeComponentCorrelationHttpHeadersOnDomains section thus:

<ExcludeComponentCorrelationHttpHeadersOnDomains>
    <Add>localhost</Add>
    <Add>127.0.0.1</Add>
    <Add>core.windows.net</Add>
    <Add>core.chinacloudapi.cn</Add>
    <Add>core.cloudapi.de</Add>
    <Add>core.usgovcloudapi.net</Add>
</ExcludeComponentCorrelationHttpHeadersOnDomains>

Answer 3

Upgrading Application Insights from version 2.4 to 2.4.1 solved this issue.

Note: when I chose to add AI to my project (using wizard), version 2.4 was added. Surprisingly, the version added was not the latest AI version. I had to go to NuGet and to manually upgrade to latest version.