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cannot get cross-site POST to work

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Mar 14, 20260 views
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Hello, Thanks for the great work. Although that were some releases targeting cross-site requests, I still can't get it to work. I dug through the previous posts and tried adding: - crossDomain: true - xDomain: true *xDomainRequest: true to the config. And none of them worked. (If this feature is actually available, updating the readme would help.) Please advise ASAP. Thank you.

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Solution: cannot get cross-site POST to work

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I just ran into this issue as well and it only seems to happen for me on Mac. I spent a good 3 days and nights trying to debug my network and decided on a whim to try this using a vanilla XHR request and realized the problem wasn't my network, but axios. I too am doing cross-site requests with credentials set to true. Looking at the network request, you get an ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE and it's like the

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    I just ran into this issue as well and it only seems to happen for me on Mac. I

    I just ran into this issue as well and it only seems to happen for me on Mac. I spent a good 3 days and nights trying to debug my network and decided on a whim to try this using a vanilla XHR request and realized the problem wasn't my network, but axios.

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    const myApi = axios.create({
  baseURL: 'http://someUrl/someEndpoint',
  timeout: 10000,
  withCredentials: true,
  transformRequest: [(data) => JSON.stringify(data.data)],
  headers: {
    'Accept': 'application/json',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  }
});'
  2. 2

    I too am doing cross-site requests with credentials set to true. Looking at the

    I too am doing cross-site requests with credentials set to true. Looking at the network request, you get an ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE and it's like the request failed before it even left the browser.

  3. 3

    If I get a chance I will try to look into this further.

    If I get a chance I will try to look into this further.

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Resolved in axios/axios GitHub issue #191. Community reactions: 6 upvotes.

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