How to send authorization header with axios

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On non-simple http requests your browser will send a “preflight” request (an OPTIONS method request) first in order to determine what the site in question considers safe information to send (see here for the cross-origin policy spec about this). One of the relevant headers that the host can set in a preflight response is Access-Control-Allow-Headers. If any of the headers you want to send were not listed in either the spec’s list of whitelisted headers or the server’s preflight response, then the browser will refuse to send your request.

In your case, you’re trying to send an Authorization header, which is not considered one of the universally safe to send headers. The browser then sends a preflight request to ask the server whether it should send that header. The server is either sending an empty Access-Control-Allow-Headers header (which is considered to mean “don’t allow any extra headers”) or it’s sending a header which doesn’t include Authorization in its list of allowed headers. Because of this, the browser is not going to send your request and instead chooses to notify you by throwing an error.

Any Javascript workaround you find that lets you send this request anyways should be considered a bug as it is against the cross origin request policy your browser is trying to enforce for your own safety.

tl;dr – If you’d like to send Authorization headers, your server had better be configured to allow it. Set your server up so it responds to an OPTIONS request at that url with an Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Authorization header.

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