React + Django Axios Issues - django

Question

I have a react application linked to a Django backend on two separate servers. I am using DRF for django and I allowed cors using django-cors-headers. For some reason when I curl POST the backend, I am able to get the request out. However when I use axios POST the backend, I get and error. The status of the POST request from axios is failed. The request and takes more than 10 seconds to complete. My code was working locally (both react and django codes), but when I deployed to AWS ec2 ubuntu, the axios requests stopped working.
Console error logs
OPTIONS http://10.0.3.98:8000/token-auth/ net::ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT
{
"config": {
"transformRequest": {},
"transformResponse": {},
"timeout": 0,
"xsrfCookieName": "XSRF-TOKEN",
"xsrfHeaderName": "X-XSRF-TOKEN",
"maxContentLength": -1,
"headers": {
"Accept": "application/json, text/plain, */*",
"Content-Type": "application/json;charset=UTF-8",
"Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*"
},
"method": "post",
"url": "http://10.0.3.98:8000/token-auth/",
"data": "{\"username\":\"testaccount\",\"password\":\"testpassword\"}"
},
"request": {}
}
Here is my request code
axios.post('http://10.0.3.98:8000/token-auth/',
JSON.stringify(data),
{
mode: 'no-cors',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' : '*'
},
},
).then( res => (
console.log(JSON.stringify(res)),
)
).catch( err => (
console.log(JSON.stringify(err))
)
);
my curl code that worked
curl -d '{"username":"testaccount", "password":"testpassword"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST http://10.0.3.98:8000/token-auth/
UPDATE 1
on firefox i am getting the warning
Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading
the remote resource at http://10.0.3.98:8000/token-auth/. (Reason:
CORS request did not succeed).[Learn More]
UPDATE 2
Perhaps it has something to do with my AWS VPC and subnets? My django server is in a private subnet while my react app is in a public subnet.
UPDATE 3 - my idea of what the problem is
I think the reason why my requests from axios aren't working is because the requests i'm making is setting the origin of the request header to http://18.207.204.70:3000 - the public/external ip address - instead of the private/internal ip address which is http://10.0.2.219:3000 - i search online that the origin is a forbidden field so it can't be changed. How can i set the origin then? Do I have to use a proxy - how can I do that.

Answer 1

try this http request instead of axios, it's called superagent (https://www.npmjs.com/package/superagent) , just install it to your react app via npm,
npm i superagent
and use this instead of axios.
import request from 'superagent'
const payload ={
"1": this.state.number,
"2": this.state.message
}
request.post('LINK HERE')
.set('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
.send(payload)
.end(function(err, res){
if (res.text==='success'){
this.setState({
msgAlert: 'Message Sent!',
})
}
else{
console.log('message failed/error')
}
});

Answer 2

The issue here is that the request is being made on the client browser. You need to either use a reverse proxy or request directly to the api server. You cannot do a local ssh forwarding either.