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.