Value of the 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header in the response must not be the wildcard '*' when the request's credentials mode is 'include'

Question

I trying to connect socket.io between Angular and Nodejs Server

In Angular I have declared a new socket and connect it import * as io from 'socket.io-client'; ... @component ... const socket = io.connect('http://localhost:3000');

In back end : server.js

const express = require('express');
const app = express();
var http = require('http').Server(app);
var io = require('socket.io')(http);
io.set('origins', 'http://localhost:4200');

var routes = require('./routes/routes')(io);

app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(function (req, res, next) {
    res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
    res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "GET, POST, PUT ,DELETE");
    res.header(
        "Access-Control-Allow-Headers",
        "Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept"
    );
    next();
});
io.on('connection', function (socket) {
    socket.emit('news', { hello: 'world' });
    console.log("connectd");
});
app.use('/', routes);
var server = app.listen(3000, function (io) {
})

The app is compiling and getting data from server. but only socket.io is not working I get this error:

localhost/:1 Failed to load http://localhost:3000/socket.io/?EIO=3&transport=polling&t=MEpHAtN: The value of the 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header in the response must not be the wildcard '*' when the request's credentials mode is 'include'. Origin 'http://localhost:4200' is therefore not allowed access. The credentials mode of requests initiated by the XMLHttpRequest is controlled by the withCredentials attribute.

Why is error persist even after configuring CORS in server side ?

Answer 1

The message is clear enough:

The value of the 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header in the response must not be the wildcard '*' when the request's credentials mode is 'include

This happens because you're setting the property withCredentials on your XMLHttpRequest to true. So you need to drop the wildcard, and add Access-Control-Allow-Credentials header.

res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "http://localhost:4200");
res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Credentials', true);

You can use cors package, to easily implement a whitelist:

const cors = require('cors');
const whitelist = ['http://localhost:4200', 'http://example2.com'];
const corsOptions = {
  credentials: true, // This is important.
  origin: (origin, callback) => {
    if(whitelist.includes(origin))
      return callback(null, true)

      callback(new Error('Not allowed by CORS'));
  }
}

app.use(cors(corsOptions));

Answer 2

For a simple no-security socket.io (v.4) server configuration try:

const ios = require('socket.io');
const io = new ios.Server({
    allowEIO3: true,
    cors: {
        origin: true,
        credentials: true
    },
})
io.listen(3000, () => {
    console.log('[socket.io] listening on port 3000')
})

(allowEIO3 is only needed if you want compatiblity with older socket.io clients)