I would like to build a website. Due to the CORS problem I would need a proxy for all my requests. I would like to use Netlify Functions as the proxy. Instead of writing several Netlify Functions that make requests to different servers, I would like to create a Netlify Functions that serves as a pr…

Hey @winstonma , This person had a similar question. Do you want to take a look at the suggestion there and let us know if it works for you or if you have questions? [image] CORS when connecting to self-hosted gitlab Netlify CMS Hey @AnaTofuZ , The best fix would be to add…

Thanks @jen The CORS problem is not only in the dev environment but also in publish environment. So I am afraid that doesn’t work.Therefore I would like to have a proxy in netlify function. I would look like this Input: .netlify/xxx/ http://www.google.com Then the netlify function would parse the …

Hey @winstonma , I know the title of that post says it’s only for Netlify Dev, but you’d publish the same function to production and be in business! The way it works is: you call the function the function makes the API request the function returns the API response to you If you want to do somethi…

@jen Thanks for the reply. I will give it a try.

@jen I tried the fetch in the link you posted. It worked flawlessly. However when I tried to replace https://icanhazdadjoke.com with my URL, the error comes. So I guess this fetch way won’t work for me. Currently I have a netlify function that already work but I still think putting all the fetchin…

If you are having CORS issues, then your URL is probably not set up to handle requests that originate from a different domain. You’ll need your URL to include an “Access-Control-Allow-Origin” header like @jen mentioned. So if you want to do the fetch directly on the client-side, you’ll need to modif…

@Dennis Thanks for the response. I understand this is not Netlify related thus I tried to build a proxy function that allows me to get the result from the API call. But in reality, I am fetching the information in the third-party server using a node module. I am not sure if it is possible for me to…

Right, so your function should include the header I mentioned with a value that includes the domain you are calling it from. Doing so should resolve your CORS issue. Hope that helps.

I am getting unexpected json parse character what might be causing this?

How to create proxy on Netlify functions?

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winstonma September 17, 2020, 4:46am 6

@jen Actually I don’t want to do my proxy thing. I just want to get the API called directly from the browser and have no CORS problem.

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