I am trying to set up a Vuejs fronted application (vue-cli webpack template) to sit on top of my Laravel API.
I am able to get a successful response from the API with vue-resource by providing the correct auth token, for example:
methods: {
getUser () {
this.$http.get('http://localhost:8000/api/user',
{
headers: {
'Authorization': 'Bearer eyJ0e.....etc',
'Accept': 'application/json'
}
}).then((response) => {
this.name = response.data.name
});
},
However, I am now trying to set up interceptors so that the user's auth token will automatically be added for each request.
Based on the vue-resource readme I am trying this in my main.js
:
Vue.use(VueResource)
Vue.http.interceptors.push((request, next) => {
request.headers['Authorization'] = 'Bearer eyJ0e.....etc'
request.headers['Accept'] = 'application/json'
next()
})
And then back in my component I now just have:
this.$http.get('http://localhost:8000/api/user').then((response) => {
this.name = response.data.name
});
Problem:
When I specify the headers in the get
itself, I get a successful response, but when I pass them through the interceptor
I get back a 401 Unauthorized
from the server. How can I fix this to respond successfully while using the interceptor?
Edit: When I use dev-tools to view the outgoing requests I see the following behavior:
When making the request by supplying the headers to $http.get
, I make a successful OPTIONS
request and then a successful GET
request with the Authentication
header being supplied to the GET
request.
However, when I remove the headers from the $http.get
directly and move them to the interceptor, I only make a GET
request and the GET
does not contain the Authentication
header, thus it comes back as a 401 Unauthorized
.
It turns out my problem was the syntax for which I was setting the headers in the interceptor.
It should be like this:
Vue.use(VueResource)
Vue.http.interceptors.push((request, next) => {
request.headers.set('Authorization', 'Bearer eyJ0e.....etc')
request.headers.set('Accept', 'application/json')
next()
})
While I was doing this:
Vue.use(VueResource)
Vue.http.interceptors.push((request, next) => {
request.headers['Authorization'] = 'Bearer eyJ0e.....etc'
request.headers['Accept'] = 'application/json'
next()
})