I am currently working my way through "Pro AngularJS" by Adam Freeman where he guides the reader in building a sports store app using Angular and a Deployd server resource. The JSON data from the Deployd resource is meant to be integrated into the model, with NodeJS serving as the server running on port 5000 (
http://localhost:5000/sportsstore/app.htmlhttp://localhost:5500/products). Upon accessing the Deployd resource, the response contains:
[
{ "name": "Kayak", "description": "A boat for one person", "category": "Watersports", "price": 275, "id": "a1c999fc248b2959" },
{ "name": "Lifejacket", "description": "Protective and fashionable", "category": "Watersports", "price": 48.95, "id": "61303717cfad182e" },
{ "name": "Soccer Ball", "description": "FIFA-approved size and weight", "category": "Soccer", "price": 19.5, "id": "0fb5f67bdcbd992f" },
{ "name": "Corner Flags", "description": "Give your playing field a professional touch", "category": "Soccer", "price": 34.95, "id": "24385d315dd388b4" },
{ "name": "Stadium", "description": "Flat-packed 35,000-seat stadium", "category": "Soccer", "price": 79500, "id": "500fb6805905a856" },
{ "name": "Thinking Cap", "description": "Improve your brain efficiency by 75%", "category": "Chess", "price": 16, "id": "637d8a1f42e6fa1c" },
{ "name": "Unsteady Chair", "description": "Secretly give your opponent a disadvantage", "category": "Chess", "price": 29.95, "id": "73393312ec7dfab7" },
{ "name": "Human Chess Board", "description": "A fun game for the family", "category": "Chess", "price": 75, "id": "7871d02a662b0915" },
{ "name": "Bling-Bling King", "description": "Gold plated, diamon-studded King", "category": "Chess", "price": 1200, "id": "b59a3389a0e248bd" }
]
To fetch this data, I tried using $http.get:
$http.get("http://localhost:5500/products")
.success(function (data) { ... })
.error(function (error) { ... });
However, it resulted in an error:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://localhost:5500/products. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:5000' is therefore not allowed access.
My research indicates that there have been issues with Angular and CORS, requiring headers to be set up for cross-domain requests. So, I included the following configuration in my app.config:
$http.defaults.useXDomain = true;
delete $http.defaults.headers.common['X-Requested-With']; // although no longer necessary, added just in case
Despite adding these settings, I am still facing the same error. Deployd documentation suggests automatic CORS configuration (Cross-Origin Requests) with appropriate header information sent unless the request has invalid custom headers. I believe my request doesn't include any invalid custom headers:
Accept: application/json, text/plain, */*
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Origin: http://localhost:5000
Referer: http://localhost:5000/sportsstore/app.html
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1847.131 Safari/537.36
My Query: What other setup could be required to enable Deployd to process the CORS request successfully? The book does not mention specific Angular header configurations or anything similar.