Blazor cannot connect to ASP.NET Core WebApi (CORS)

Question

I have a ASP.NET Core Server running on local IP https://192.168.188.31:44302 with Web API Enpoints. I can connect to said server with VS Code REST Client. Now I want to conenct to the Web API with Blazor WebAssembly running on https://192.168.188.31:5555.

My Blozor Code:

@page "/login"
@inject HttpClient Http

[ ... some "HTML"-Code ... ]

@code {
    private async Task Authenticate()
    {
        var loginModel = new LoginModel
        {
            Mail = "[email protected]",
            Password = "s3cr3T"
        };
        var requestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage()
        {
            Method = new HttpMethod("POST"),
            RequestUri = ClientB.Classes.Uris.AuthenticateUser(),
            Content =
                JsonContent.Create(loginModel)
        };

        var response = await Http.SendAsync(requestMessage);
        var responseStatusCode = response.StatusCode;

        var responseBody = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

        Console.WriteLine("responseBody: " + responseBody);
    }

    public async void LoginSubmit(EditContext editContext)
    {
        await Authenticate();
        Console.WriteLine("Debug: Valid Submit");
    }
}

When I now trigger LoginSubmit I get the following error-message in the developer console of Chrome and Firefox: login:1 Access to fetch at 'https://192.168.188.31:44302/user/authenticate' from origin 'https://192.168.188.31:5555' has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.

I'm new to web development and found that you have to enable CORS on the server-side ASP.NET Core project, so I extended startup.cs with

readonly string MyAllowSpecificOrigins = "_myAllowSpecificOrigins";

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
services.AddDbContext<UserDataContext, UserSqliteDataContext>();

services.AddCors(options =>
{
    options.AddPolicy(name: MyAllowSpecificOrigins,
        builder =>
        {
            builder.WithOrigins("https://192.168.188.31:44302",
                "https://192.168.188.31:5555",
                "https://localhost:44302", 
                "https://localhost:5555")
            .AllowAnyHeader()
            .AllowAnyMethod();
        });
});

services.AddControllers();
services.AddApiVersioning(x =>
{
...
});

services.AddAuthentication(x =>
    ...
});
services.AddAutoMapper(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies());

services.AddScoped<IViewerService, ViewerService>();
}

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app,
    IWebHostEnvironment env)
{
    if (env.IsDevelopment())
    {
        app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();
    }

    Program.IsDevelopment = env.IsDevelopment();

    app.UseHttpsRedirection();
    app.UseRouting();

    app.UseAuthentication();
    app.UseAuthorization();
    app.UseCors(MyAllowSpecificOrigins);

    app.UseEndpoints(endpoints =>
    {
        endpoints.MapControllers();
    });

    Log.Initialize();
}

But I still get above error message. Am I doing something wrong with configuring CORS? Why is it working as expected with the VS Code REST Client and how am I making the call wrong in the Blazor WASM application?

Answer 1

The issue causing the error message login:1 Access to fetch at 'https://192.168.188.31:44302/user/authenticate' from origin 'https://192.168.188.31:5555' has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled. was caused by HttpsRedirection.

To resolve the issue, either deactivate HttpsRedirection by removing the line app.UseHttpsRedirection(); in function Configure or add the proper ports for redirection in function ConfigureServices (recommended way).

In my case, I start my WebAPI at port 44302, so my solution looks like this (you have to adapt it to your port number):

if (Program.IsDevelopment)
{
    services.AddHttpsRedirection(options =>
    {
        options.RedirectStatusCode = StatusCodes.Status308PermanentRedirect;
        options.HttpsPort = 44302;
    });
}
else
{
    services.AddHttpsRedirection(options =>
    {
        options.RedirectStatusCode = StatusCodes.Status308PermanentRedirect;
        options.HttpsPort = 443;
    });
}

Also note that it is sufficient to add the IP address of the requesting API to CORS like this:

services.AddCors(options =>
{
    options.AddPolicy(name: specificOrigins,
        builder =>
        {
            builder.WithOrigins("https://192.168.188.31:5555",
                "http://192.168.188.31:5444")
            .AllowAnyHeader()
            .AllowAnyMethod();
        });
});