Spring Boot : CORS Issue

Question

I am using Spring Boot version 2.0.2Release. Below is my security configuration

@Configuration
@EnableWebSecurity
@EnableGlobalMethodSecurity(
        prePostEnabled = true,
        securedEnabled = true,
        jsr250Enabled = true)
@ComponentScan("com.mk")
public class WebSecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

    @Autowired
    private AuthenticationProvider myAuthenticationProvider;

    @Override
    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
        http.csrf().disable();
        http.cors().configurationSource(corsConfigurationSource())
                .and()
                .csrf().disable()
                .anonymous().and()
                .authorizeRequests()
                .antMatchers(HttpMethod.GET,"/index.html").permitAll()
                .antMatchers(HttpMethod.POST,"/login").permitAll()
                .antMatchers(HttpMethod.GET,"*").authenticated()
                .and().httpBasic();
    }
    @Bean
    CorsConfigurationSource corsConfigurationSource() {
        CorsConfiguration configuration = new CorsConfiguration();
        configuration.setAllowedOrigins(Arrays.asList("*"));
        configuration.setAllowedMethods(Arrays.asList("GET","POST"));
        configuration.setAllowCredentials(true);
        UrlBasedCorsConfigurationSource source = new UrlBasedCorsConfigurationSource();
        source.registerCorsConfiguration("/**", configuration);
        return source;
    }

I am unable to invoke any API (including login which is permitAll) because of CORS issue.

On Browser I am getting (It works with Postman, since CORS check is not made there)

Failed to load http://localhost:8080/myurl: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:4200' is therefore not allowed access. The response had HTTP status code 403.

Answer 1

Checkout this guide from Spring:

https://spring.io/guides/gs/rest-service-cors/

There are few ways to add CORS support in Spring Boot.

Using global configuration:

@Bean
public WebMvcConfigurer corsConfigurer() {
    return new WebMvcConfigurerAdapter() {
        @Override
        public void addCorsMappings(CorsRegistry registry) {
            registry.addMapping("/greeting-javaconfig").allowedOrigins("http://localhost:9000");
        }
    };
}

And using @CrossOrigin annotation:

@CrossOrigin(origins = "http://localhost:9000")
@GetMapping("/greeting")
public Greeting greeting(@RequestParam(required=false, defaultValue="World") String name) {
    System.out.println("==== in greeting ====");
    return new Greeting(counter.incrementAndGet(), String.format(template, name));
}

Answer 2

Although Spring security provides a way to configure CORS in http configurer, there's a much cleaner approach to add CORS filter to the application-

@Component
@Order(Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE)
public class MyCORSFilter implements Filter {


@Override
public void doFilter(ServletRequest req, ServletResponse res, FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {

    HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest) req;
    HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse) res;

    response.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", request.getHeader("Origin"));
    response.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Credentials", "true");
    response.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "POST, GET, OPTIONS, DELETE");
    response.setHeader("Access-Control-Max-Age", "3600");
    response.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Content-Type, Accept, X-Requested-With, remember-me");

    chain.doFilter(req, res);
}

@Override
public void init(FilterConfig filterConfig) {
}

@Override
public void destroy() {
}

}

Ordering the filter with highest precedence makes sure that MyCORSFilter implementation of javax.servlet.Filter is the first one in the chain. Hope this helps