My backbone.js
application throwing an HTTP OPTIONS not found error when I try to save a model to my restful web service that's located on another host/URL.
Based on my research, I gathered from this post that :
a request would constantly send an OPTIONS http request header, and not trigger the POST request at all.
Apparently CORS with requests that will "cause side-effects on user data" will make your browser "preflight" the request with the OPTIONS request header to check for approval, before actually sending your intended HTTP request method.
I tried to get around this by:
Backbone.emulateHTTP = true;
I also allowed allowed all CORS and CSRF options in the header.
header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');
header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept");
header("Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, OPTIONS");
The application crashed when the Backbone.emulateHTTP
line of code was introduced.
Is there a way to respond to OPTIONS request in CodeIgniter RESTServer and are there any other alternatives to allow either disable this request from talking place?
I found this on Github as one solution. I am not sure if I should use it as it seems a bit outdated.
I encountered exactly the same problem. To solve it I have a MY_REST_Controller.php in core and all my REST API controllers use it as a base class. I simply added a constructor like this to handle OPTIONS requests.
function __construct() {
header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');
header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers: X-API-KEY, Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept, Access-Control-Request-Method");
header("Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, OPTIONS, PUT, DELETE");
$method = $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'];
if($method == "OPTIONS") {
die();
}
parent::__construct();
}
This just checks if the request type is OPTIONS and if so just dies out which return a code 200 for the request.