Flask-CORS not working for POST, but working for GET

Question

I'm running a Flask-Restful API locally and sending a POST request containing JSON from a different port. I'm getting the error

No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. 

However, when I run

curl --include -X OPTIONS http://localhost:5000/api/comments/3         --header Access-Control-Request-Method:POST         --header Access-Control-Request-Headers:Content-Type         --header Origin:http://localhost:8080 

I get

HTTP/1.0 200 OK Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Allow: HEAD, GET, POST, OPTIONS Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://localhost:8080 Access-Control-Allow-Methods: DELETE, GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, PATCH, POST, PUT Vary: Origin Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type Content-Length: 0 

which shows "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" as "*". GET works fine, it's just POST that gives this error. What could be going wrong? If relevant, for the frontend I'm using react and requesting through axios.

Answer 1

You have to add CORS(app, resources={r"/*": {"origins": "*"}}) into your flask app.

Hope that solves the issue.