amazon web services - AWS API Gateway - CORS + POST not working

Question

CORS is really driving me crazy and I'm really out of ideas as of what to try to make it work.

I have created a simple APIG Api with 1 resource called 'abc' and added 2 methods GET and POST both with Authorization set to NONE and API Key Required set to false, everything deployed to a stage called 'dev'.

Of course I enabled CORS on both methods and I see the 3 headers Access-Control-Allow-Origin, Access-Control-Allow-Headers and Access-Control-Allow-Methods added to the OPTIONS method and the Access-Control-Allow-Origin added to the POST and GET methods.

Both calls are mapped to the same lambda function that simply outputs a 'Hello from Lambda' text to the console.

Then I have created a simple html page I hosted as a static website on S3, pointed a domain to it using Route53 and started testing the API using jQuery $.ajax to make the calls.

All seems easy, straightforward and exactly as explained in the docs, except only the GET works and outputs the text to the console as expected. The POST version results in the following error:

No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://example.com' is therefore not allowed access. The response had HTTP status code 400.

The preflight call works and returns 200 OK and all headers are there, but the POST call returns that error and a 400 Bad Request.

Please any help is really appreciated, I hope the AWS team is watching too...

Thanks guys.

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EDITED - Copied from Google Chrome:

POST Raw Request Headers:

POST /dev/urls HTTP/1.1
Host: kykul1mshe.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 73
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
Origin: http://example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/json
Referer: http://example.com/dev.html
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Accept-Language: fr-FR,fr;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4

POST Raw Response Headers:

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 02:14:16 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 177
Connection: keep-alive
x-amzn-RequestId: a1160e45-65b2-11e6-9766-cd61e49fbcdb
X-Cache: Error from cloudfront
Via: 1.1 d64756b4df47ce24d6c62b5a8de97e87.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
X-Amz-Cf-Id: N9mf7apicKbSM_MiZjePbEgZGIFKckWJ3lZljH8iHVKFVTcIIOQuHg==

This returns 400 Bad Request

OPTIONS Raw Request Headers:

Accept:*/*
Accept-Encoding:gzip, deflate, sdch, br
Accept-Language:fr-FR,fr;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4
Access-Control-Request-Headers:accept, content-type
Access-Control-Request-Method:POST
Connection:keep-alive
Host:kykul1mshe.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
Origin:http://example.com
Referer:http://example.com/dev.html
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36

OPTIONS Raw Response Headers:

Access-Control-Allow-Headers:Content-Type,X-Amz-Date,Authorization,X-Api-Key,Cache-Control,X-Requested-With
Access-Control-Allow-Methods:POST,OPTIONS
Access-Control-Allow-Origin:*
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Length:79
Content-Type:application/json
Date:Fri, 19 Aug 2016 02:14:16 GMT
Via:1.1 d64756b4df47ce24d6c62b5a8de97e87.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
X-Amz-Cf-Id:KpGEDmIuf5RHcUnBWuA3oEMZgWHwrjy3SpLuOflRhAD8IIx5vyKGSw==
x-amzn-RequestId:a10bae11-65b2-11e6-bcf7-63b49c24629e
X-Cache:Miss from cloudfront

This returns 200 OK

Answer 1

Ok, I found the origin of the problem, which happens to be totally unrelated to APIG, and confirms what @AbhignaNagaraja mentioned, that my APIG was properly configured.

The issue is actually in the way I called jQuery.ajax, which I thought was smart enough to convert my parameters to a JSON string when contentType is 'application/json'. It seems I had to manually stringify the JSON params rather than passing a JSON and having jQuery stringify it.

So this is the bad call:

$.ajax({
        url: myEndpoint,
        type: 'POST',
        crossDomain: true,
        data: {
            url: $('#url').val()
        },
        headers: {
            "X-Api-Key": 'blablabla'
        },
        dataType: 'json',
        contentType: "application/json",
        success: function (data) {
            console.info(data);
        }
    });

And this is the right call:

 $.ajax({
        url: myEndpoint,
        type: 'POST',
        crossDomain: true,
        data: JSON.stringify({
            url: $('#url').val()
        }),
        headers: {
            "X-Api-Key": 'blablabla'
        },
        dataType: 'json',
        contentType: "application/json",
        success: function (data) {
            console.info(data);
        }
    });

This can be a hint if you are debugging such an issue with CORS: just download the AWS APIG SDK and try executing the call using the apigClient provided by AWS and compare headers with the ones you get with your custom client. When examining the 2 sets of headers I got with jQuery and apigClient, I noticed the Request Payload looked different and thats how I realized the format was wrong, then the 400 code and the No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present all made sense.

I hope this helps.