CORS in .NET Core

Assume you have the answer, but for the benefit of searchers, I had the same problem with the standard tutorial on .NET Core Cors.

One of the many errors encountered:

XMLHttpRequest cannot load localhost:64633/api/blogs. Response
to preflight request doesn’t pass access control check: No
‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested
resource. Origin ‘localhost:56573’ is therefore not allowed
access. The response had HTTP status code 500.

After playing around, the following code worked. Full class posted below to aid understanding of what goes where.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Builder;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Cors.Infrastructure;

namespace NetCoreWebApiTesting
{
    public class Startup
    {
        public Startup(IHostingEnvironment env)
        {
            var builder = new ConfigurationBuilder()
                .SetBasePath(env.ContentRootPath)
                .AddJsonFile("appsettings.json", optional: true, reloadOnChange: true)
                .AddJsonFile($"appsettings.{env.EnvironmentName}.json", optional: true);

            if (env.IsEnvironment("Development"))
            {
                // This will push telemetry data through Application Insights pipeline faster, allowing you to view results immediately.
                builder.AddApplicationInsightsSettings(developerMode: true);
            }

            builder.AddEnvironmentVariables();
            Configuration = builder.Build();
        }

        public IConfigurationRoot Configuration { get; }

        // This method gets called by the runtime. Use this method to add services to the container
        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            // Add framework services.
            services.AddApplicationInsightsTelemetry(Configuration);

            services.AddMvc().AddJsonOptions(options => options.SerializerSettings.ReferenceLoopHandling =
                                                            Newtonsoft.Json.ReferenceLoopHandling.Ignore);

            // ********************
            // Setup CORS
            // ********************
            var corsBuilder = new CorsPolicyBuilder();
            corsBuilder.AllowAnyHeader();
            corsBuilder.AllowAnyMethod();
            corsBuilder.AllowAnyOrigin(); // For anyone access.
            //corsBuilder.WithOrigins("http://localhost:56573"); // for a specific url. Don't add a forward slash on the end!
            corsBuilder.AllowCredentials();

            services.AddCors(options =>
            {
                options.AddPolicy("SiteCorsPolicy", corsBuilder.Build());
            });
        }

        // This method gets called by the runtime. Use this method to configure the HTTP request pipeline
        public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory)
        {
            loggerFactory.AddConsole(Configuration.GetSection("Logging"));
            loggerFactory.AddDebug();

            app.UseApplicationInsightsRequestTelemetry();

            app.UseApplicationInsightsExceptionTelemetry();

            app.UseMvc();

            // ********************
            // USE CORS - might not be required.
            // ********************
            app.UseCors("SiteCorsPolicy");
        }
    }
}

To use it you can add the EnableCorsAttribute either on the controller or on the method. e.g.

[EnableCors("SiteCorsPolicy")]
[Route("api/[controller]")]
public class BlogsController : Controller
{

}

or

// POST api/value
[EnableCors("SiteCorsPolicy")]
[HttpPost]
public HttpResponseMessage Post([FromBody]Blog value)
{
    // Do something with the blog here....

    var msg = new HttpResponseMessage(System.Net.HttpStatusCode.OK);
    return msg;

}

When I called this using the following code (using standard js/jQuery for easy of copy and paste), the communication stopped being rejected.

function HandleClick() {

    var entityData = {
        "blogId": 2,
        "url": "http://blog.com/blog1",
        "posts": [
        {
            "postId": 3,
            "title": "Post 1-1",
            "content": "This is post 1 for blog 1",
            "blogId": 2
        },
        {
            "postId": 4,
            "title": "Post 1-2",
            "content": "This is post 2 for blog 1",
            "blogId": 2
        }
        ]
    };

    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "http://localhost:64633/api/blogs",
        async: true,
        cache: false,
        crossDomain: true,
        data: JSON.stringify(entityData),
        contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
        dataType: "json",
        success: function (responseData, textStatus, jqXHR) {
            var value = responseData;
        },
        error: function (responseData, textStatus, errorThrown) {
            alert('POST failed.');
        }
    });
}