I want to enable CORS in my Rackspace CluodFiles container, so after reading the docs, I see I have to set some container metadata (I'm using Python and Pyrax):
from pyrax import cloudfiles
cloudfiles.set_container_metadata(container_name, {
'X-Container-Meta-Access-Control-Allow-Origin': 'localhost:8000',
'X-Container-Meta-Access-Control-Expose-Headers': 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin',
'X-Container-Meta-Access-Control-Max-Age': '10',
})
print cloudfiles.get_container_metadata(container_name)
And I get as output:
{'x-container-meta-access-control-allow-origin': 'localhost:8000',
'x-container-meta-access-control-expose-headers': 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin',
'x-container-meta-access-control-max-age': '10',
'x-container-meta-access-log-delivery': 'false'}
But the browser is not getting a Access-Control-Allow-Origin
in the OPTIONS
preflight request, so it cancels the AJAX call:
HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Content-Length: 131
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Allow: HEAD, GET, PUT, POST, COPY, OPTIONS, DELETE
X-Trans-Id: txXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 20:07:34 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
What's missing?
Thanks!
Rackspace has docs on how to enable CORS for a container here. Example 7.11 is a CORS Test Page that'll let you test your configuration outside of attempting file uploads.
Test CORS Page - accepts a token and a URL to an object or container and let's you try calling an HTTP method on it.
NOTE: I've removed the "DELETE" method as that can have undesired results (Such as deleting your container/object)
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Test CORS</title>
</head>
<body>
Token<br><input id="token" type="text" size="64"><br><br>
Method<br>
<select id="method">
<option value="GET">GET</option>
<option value="HEAD">HEAD</option>
<option value="POST">POST</option>
<option value="PUT">PUT</option>
</select><br><br>
URL (Container or Object)<br><input id="url" size="64" type="text"><br><br>
<input id="submit" type="button" value="Submit" onclick="submit(); return false;">
<pre id="response_headers"></pre>
<p>
<hr>
<pre id="response_body"></pre>
<script type="text/javascript">
function submit() {
var token = document.getElementById('token').value;
var method = document.getElementById('method').value;
var url = document.getElementById('url').value;
document.getElementById('response_headers').textContent = null;
document.getElementById('response_body').textContent = null;
var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.onreadystatechange = function (oEvent) {
if (request.readyState == 4) {
responseHeaders = 'Status: ' + request.status;
responseHeaders = responseHeaders + '\nStatus Text: ' + request.statusText;
responseHeaders = responseHeaders + '\n\n' + request.getAllResponseHeaders();
document.getElementById('response_headers').textContent = responseHeaders;
document.getElementById('response_body').textContent = request.responseText;
}
}
request.open(method, url);
request.setRequestHeader('X-Auth-Token', token);
request.send(null);
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
To set these values outside of pyrax or any other SDK, I've used the following code:
https://gist.github.com/chrisrasco/7455804
Remember to set your username, apikey, and path to your container in the appropriate places.