[aerogear-dev] Aerogear.js CORS & Android browser

[Apostolos Emmanouilidis]

Done (AGJS-36)

On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 09:59 -0500, Kris Borchers wrote:

> Please file a JIRA for this at https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGJS
> 
> 
> 
> On Jun 18, 2013, at 9:36 AM, Apostolos Emmanouilidis
> <aemmanou at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm testing the CORS support on Aerogear.js.
> > 
> > Initially, I executed some CORS tests from Mozilla Firefox v21.0 and
> > received the Error: "jqXHR.getResponseHeader(..) is null aerogear.js
> > line 605" when testing the weblinking (attached screenshot).
> > 
> > However, I think that this error is not related to the AeroGear.js. 
> > 
> > I managed to overcome this issue in Firefox by adding an extra
> > header to the service response which sets a server whitelist headers
> > that browsers are allowed to access:
> > 
> >         Access-Control-Expose-Headers: Link
> > 
> > 
> > The problem is that it still fails on the Android emulator browser.
> > 
> > The header tests were also failing in Firefox and passed after
> > adding the following header in the Response headers:
> > 
> >         Access-Control-Expose-Headers: next,previous
> >         
> > 
> > But on the Android emulator the header tests are failing. I captured
> > the requests using a proxy between the emulator and the REST service
> > and found that the constructed URLs for next and previous calls are
> > wrong. This happens because the custom response headers cannot be
> > read.
> > 
> > In conclusion, I think that the Access-Control-Expose-Headers header
> > is not supported by the Android browser and for that reason the CORS
> > tests are failing. There is a relevant open issue [2] in the Android
> > project.
> > 
> > [1]: http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/
> > [2]: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=56726
> > 
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