[c#] How to enable CORS in ASP.net Core WebAPI

What I am trying to do

I have a backend ASP.Net Core Web API hosted on an Azure Free Plan (Source Code: https://github.com/killerrin/Portfolio-Backend).

I also have a Client Website which I want to make consume that API. The Client Application will not be hosted on Azure, but rather will be hosted on Github Pages or on another Web Hosting Service that I have access to. Because of this the domain names won't line up.

Looking into this, I need to enable CORS on the Web API side, however I have tried just about everything for several hours now and it is refusing to work.

How I have the Client Setup Its just a simple client written in React.js. I'm calling the APIs through AJAX in Jquery. The React site works so I know its not that. The Jquery API call works as I confirmed in Attempt 1. Here is how I make the calls

    var apiUrl = "http://andrewgodfroyportfolioapi.azurewebsites.net/api/Authentication";
    //alert(username + "|" + password + "|" + apiUrl);
    $.ajax({
        url: apiUrl,
        type: "POST",
        data: {
            username: username,
            password: password
        },
        contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
        dataType: "json",
        success: function (response) {
            var authenticatedUser = JSON.parse(response);
            //alert("Data Loaded: " + authenticatedUser);
            if (onComplete != null) {
                onComplete(authenticatedUser);
            }
        },
        error: function (xhr, status, error) {
            //alert(xhr.responseText);
            if (onComplete != null) {
                onComplete(xhr.responseText);
            }
        }
    });

What I have tried

Attempt 1 - The 'proper' way

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/cors

I have followed this tutorial on the Microsoft Website to a T, trying all 3 options of enabling it Globally in the Startup.cs, Setting it up on every controller and Trying it on every Action.

Following this method, the Cross Domain works, but only on a single Action on a single controller (POST to the AccountController). For everything else, the Microsoft.AspNetCore.Cors middleware refuses to set the headers.

I installed Microsoft.AspNetCore.Cors through NUGET and the version is 1.1.2

Here is how I have it setup in Startup.cs

    // This method gets called by the runtime. Use this method to add services to the container.
    public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
    {
        // Add Cors
        services.AddCors(o => o.AddPolicy("MyPolicy", builder =>
        {
            builder.AllowAnyOrigin()
                   .AllowAnyMethod()
                   .AllowAnyHeader();
        }));

        // Add framework services.
        services.AddMvc();
        services.Configure<MvcOptions>(options =>
        {
            options.Filters.Add(new CorsAuthorizationFilterFactory("MyPolicy"));
        });

        ...
        ...
        ...
    }

    // This method gets called by the runtime. Use this method to configure 
    //the HTTP request pipeline.
    public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env,
    ILoggerFactory loggerFactory)
    {
        loggerFactory.AddConsole(Configuration.GetSection("Logging"));
        loggerFactory.AddDebug();

        // Enable Cors
        app.UseCors("MyPolicy");

        //app.UseMvcWithDefaultRoute();
        app.UseMvc();

        ...
        ...
        ...
    }

As you can see, I am doing everything as told. I add Cors before MVC both times, and when that didn't work I attempted putting [EnableCors("MyPolicy")] on every controller as so

[Route("api/[controller]")]
[EnableCors("MyPolicy")]
public class AdminController : Controller

Attempt 2 - Brute Forcing it

https://andrewlock.net/adding-default-security-headers-in-asp-net-core/

After several hours of trying on the previous attempt, I figured I would try to bruteforce it by trying to set the headers manually, forcing them to run on every response. I did this following this tutorial on how to manually add headers to every response.

These are the headers I added

.AddCustomHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*")
.AddCustomHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "*")
.AddCustomHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "*")
.AddCustomHeader("Access-Control-Max-Age", "86400")

These are other headers I tried which failed

.AddCustomHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE")
.AddCustomHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "content-type, accept, X-PINGOTHER")
.AddCustomHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "X-PINGOTHER, Host, User-Agent, Accept, Accept: application/json, application/json, Accept-Language, Accept-Encoding, Access-Control-Request-Method, Access-Control-Request-Headers, Origin, Connection, Content-Type, Content-Type: application/json, Authorization, Connection, Origin, Referer")

With this method, the Cross Site headers are being properly applied and they show up in my developer console and in Postman. The problem however is that while it passes the Access-Control-Allow-Origin check, the webbrowser throws a hissy fit on (I believe) Access-Control-Allow-Headers stating 415 (Unsupported Media Type)

So the brute force method doesn't work either

Finally

Has anyone gotten this to work and could lend a hand, or just be able to point me in the right direction?

EDIT

So to get the API calls to go through, I had to stop using JQuery and switch to a Pure Javascript XMLHttpRequest format.

Attempt 1

I managed to get the Microsoft.AspNetCore.Cors to work by following MindingData's answer, except within the Configure Method putting the app.UseCors before app.UseMvc.

In addition, when mixed with the Javascript API Solution options.AllowAnyOrigin() for wildcard support began to work as well.

Attempt 2

So I have managed to get Attempt 2 (brute forcing it) to work... with the only exception that the Wildcard for Access-Control-Allow-Origin doesn't work and as such I have to manually set the domains that have access to it.

Its obviously not ideal since I just want this WebAPI to be wide opened to everyone, but it atleast works for me on a separate site, which means it's a start

app.UseSecurityHeadersMiddleware(new SecurityHeadersBuilder()
    .AddDefaultSecurePolicy()
    .AddCustomHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "http://localhost:3000")
    .AddCustomHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "OPTIONS, GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE")
    .AddCustomHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "X-PINGOTHER, Content-Type, Authorization"));

I'm using .Net CORE 3.1 and I spent ages banging my head against a wall with this one when I realised that my code has started actually working but my debugging environment was broken, so here's 2 hints if you're trying to troubleshoot the problem:

1. If you're trying to log response headers using ASP.NET middleware, the "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" header will never show up even if it's there. I don't know how but it seems to be added outside the pipeline (in the end I had to use wireshark to see it).

2. .NET CORE won't send the "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" in the response unless you have an "Origin" header in your request. Postman won't set this automatically so you'll need to add it yourself.

Use a custom Action/Controller Attribute to set the CORS headers.

Example:

public class AllowMyRequestsAttribute : ControllerAttribute, IActionFilter
{
    public void OnActionExecuted(ActionExecutedContext context)
    {
        // check origin
        var origin = context.HttpContext.Request.Headers["origin"].FirstOrDefault();
        if (origin == someValidOrigin)
        {
            context.HttpContext.Response.Headers.Add("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", origin);
            context.HttpContext.Response.Headers.Add("Access-Control-Allow-Credentials", "true");
            context.HttpContext.Response.Headers.Add("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "*");
            context.HttpContext.Response.Headers.Add("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "*");
            // Add whatever CORS Headers you need.
        }
    }

    public void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext context)
    {
        // empty
    }
}

Then on the Web API Controller / Action:

[ApiController]
[AllowMyRequests]
public class MyController : ApiController
{
    [HttpGet]
    public ActionResult<string> Get()
    {
        return "Hello World";
    }
}

I think if you use your own CORS middleware you need to make sure it is really CORS request by checking origin header.

 public class CorsMiddleware
{
    private readonly RequestDelegate _next;
    private readonly IMemoryCache _cache;
    private readonly ILogger<CorsMiddleware> _logger;

    public CorsMiddleware(RequestDelegate next, IMemoryCache cache, ILogger<CorsMiddleware> logger)
    {
        _next = next;
        _cache = cache;
        _logger = logger;
    }
    public async Task InvokeAsync(HttpContext context, IAdministrationApi adminApi)
    {
        if (context.Request.Headers.ContainsKey(CorsConstants.Origin) || context.Request.Headers.ContainsKey("origin"))
        {
            if (!context.Request.Headers.TryGetValue(CorsConstants.Origin, out var origin))
            {
                context.Request.Headers.TryGetValue("origin", out origin);
            }

            bool isAllowed;
            // Getting origin from DB to check with one from request and save it in cache 
            var result = _cache.GetOrCreateAsync(origin, async cacheEntry => await adminApi.DoesExistAsync(origin));
            isAllowed = result.Result.Result;

            if (isAllowed)
            {
                context.Response.Headers.Add(CorsConstants.AccessControlAllowOrigin, origin);
                context.Response.Headers.Add(
                    CorsConstants.AccessControlAllowHeaders,
                    $"{HeaderNames.Authorization}, {HeaderNames.ContentType}, {HeaderNames.AcceptLanguage}, {HeaderNames.Accept}");
                context.Response.Headers.Add(CorsConstants.AccessControlAllowMethods, "POST, GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, OPTIONS");

                if (context.Request.Method == "OPTIONS")
                {
                    _logger.LogInformation("CORS with origin {Origin} was handled successfully", origin);
                    context.Response.StatusCode = (int)HttpStatusCode.NoContent;
                    return;
                }

                await _next(context);
            }
            else
            {
                if (context.Request.Method == "OPTIONS")
                {
                    _logger.LogInformation("Preflight CORS request with origin {Origin} was declined", origin);
                    context.Response.StatusCode = (int)HttpStatusCode.NoContent;
                    return;
                }

                _logger.LogInformation("Simple CORS request with origin {Origin} was declined", origin);
                context.Response.StatusCode = (int)HttpStatusCode.Forbidden;
                return;
            }
        }

        await _next(context);
    }

None of the above procedures helped and I then read article which solved the issue.

Below is the code.

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    // Add service and create Policy with options
    services.AddCors(options =>
    {
        options.AddPolicy("CorsPolicy",
            builder => builder.AllowAnyOrigin()
            .AllowAnyMethod()
            .AllowAnyHeader()
            .AllowCredentials() );
    });


    services.AddMvc(); 
}

and

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
{
    // ...

    // global policy - assign here or on each controller
    app.UseCors("CorsPolicy");

and on the top of my actionmethod

[EnableCors("CorsPolicy")]

To expand on user8266077's answer, I found that I still needed to supply OPTIONS response for preflight requests in .NET Core 2.1-preview for my use case:

// https://stackoverflow.com/a/45844400
public class CorsMiddleware
{
  private readonly RequestDelegate _next;

  public CorsMiddleware(RequestDelegate next)
  {
    _next = next;
  }

  public async Task Invoke(HttpContext context)
  {
    context.Response.Headers.Add("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
    context.Response.Headers.Add("Access-Control-Allow-Credentials", "true");
    // Added "Accept-Encoding" to this list
    context.Response.Headers.Add("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Content-Type, X-CSRF-Token, X-Requested-With, Accept, Accept-Version, Accept-Encoding, Content-Length, Content-MD5, Date, X-Api-Version, X-File-Name");
    context.Response.Headers.Add("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "POST,GET,PUT,PATCH,DELETE,OPTIONS");
    // New Code Starts here
    if (context.Request.Method == "OPTIONS")
    {
      context.Response.StatusCode = (int)HttpStatusCode.OK;
      await context.Response.WriteAsync(string.Empty);
    }
    // New Code Ends here

    await _next(context);
  }
}

and then enabled the middleware like so in Startup.cs

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env)
{
  app.UseMiddleware(typeof(CorsMiddleware));
  // ... other middleware inclusion such as ErrorHandling, Caching, etc
  app.UseMvc();
}

• In ConfigureServices add services.AddCors(); BEFORE services.AddMvc();

• Add UseCors in Configure

   app.UseCors(builder => builder
       .AllowAnyOrigin()
       .AllowAnyMethod()
       .AllowAnyHeader());   
   app.UseMvc();
  

Main point is that add app.UseCors, before app.UseMvc().

Make sure you declare the CORS functionality before MVC so the middleware fires before the MVC pipeline gets control and terminates the request.

After the above method works you can change it configure a specific ORIGIN to accept api calls and avoid leaving your API so open to anyone

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    services.AddCors(options => options.AddPolicy("ApiCorsPolicy", builder =>
    {
        builder.WithOrigins("http://localhost:4200").AllowAnyMethod().AllowAnyHeader();
    }));

    services.AddMvc();
}

In the configure method tell CORS to use the policy you just created:

app.UseCors("ApiCorsPolicy");
app.UseMvc();

I just found this compact article on the subject - https://dzone.com/articles/cors-in-net-core-net-core-security-part-vi

I created my own middleware class that worked for me, i think there is something wrong with .net core middleware class

public class CorsMiddleware
{
    private readonly RequestDelegate _next;

    public CorsMiddleware(RequestDelegate next)
    {
        _next = next;
    }

    public Task Invoke(HttpContext httpContext)
    {
        httpContext.Response.Headers.Add("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
        httpContext.Response.Headers.Add("Access-Control-Allow-Credentials", "true");
        httpContext.Response.Headers.Add("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Content-Type, X-CSRF-Token, X-Requested-With, Accept, Accept-Version, Content-Length, Content-MD5, Date, X-Api-Version, X-File-Name");
        httpContext.Response.Headers.Add("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "POST,GET,PUT,PATCH,DELETE,OPTIONS");
        return _next(httpContext);
    }
}

// Extension method used to add the middleware to the HTTP request pipeline.
public static class CorsMiddlewareExtensions
{
    public static IApplicationBuilder UseCorsMiddleware(this IApplicationBuilder builder)
    {
        return builder.UseMiddleware<CorsMiddleware>();
    }
}

and used it this way in the startup.cs

app.UseCorsMiddleware();

For me the solution was to correct the order:

app.UseCors();
app.UseAuthentication();
app.UseAuthorization();

I was struggling with this for DAYS.

I finally got it to work by moving app.UseCors(CORS_POLICY); to the TOP of Configure().

https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2016/sep/26/aspnet-core-and-cors-gotchas

Make sure you declare the CORS functionality before > MVC as the headers have to be applied before MVC completes the request.

<= Even though my app didn't call UseMVC(), moving UseCors() to the top fixed the problem

Also:

• Microsoft.AspNetCore.Cors used to be a required NuGet package in .Net Core 2 and lower; it's now automatically a part of Microsoft.AspNetCore in .Net Core 3 and higher.
• builder.AllowAnyOrigin() and .AllowCredentials() CORS options are now mutually exclusive in .Net Core 3 and higher
• CORS policy seems to require Angular call the server with https. An http URL seemed to give a CORS error regardless of the .Net Core server's CORS configuration. For example, http://localhost:52774/api/Contacts would give a CORS error; simply changing the URL to https://localhost:44333/api/Contacts worked.

Additional note:

In my case, CORS wouldn't work until I moved app.UseCors() above app.UseEndpoints(endpoints => endpoints.MapControllers()).

For me it started working when i have set explicitly the headers that I was sending. I was adding the content-type header, and then it worked.

.net

.WithHeaders("Authorization","Content-Type")

javascript:

this.fetchoptions = {
        method: 'GET', 
        cache: 'no-cache', 
        credentials: 'include', 
        headers: {
            'Content-Type': 'application/json',
        },
        redirect: 'follow', 
    }; 

I got MindingData's answer above to work, but I had to use Microsoft.AspNet.Cors instead of Microsoft.AspNetCore.Cors. I am using .NetCore Web Application API project in Visual Studio 2019

In launchSettings.json, under iisSettings, set anonymousAuthentication to true:

"iisSettings": {
    "windowsAuthentication": true,
    "anonymousAuthentication": true,
    "iisExpress": {
      "applicationUrl": "http://localhost:4200/",
      "sslPort": 0
    }
  }

Then, in Startup.cs, under ConfigureServices, before services.AddMvc, add:

services.AddCors(options => options.AddPolicy("ApiCorsPolicy", builder =>
{
    builder
        .AllowAnyOrigin()
        .WithHeaders(HeaderNames.AccessControlAllowHeaders, "Content-Type")
        .AllowAnyMethod()
        .AllowCredentials();
}));

and then, in configure method, before app.UseMvc() add:

app.UseCors("ApiCorsPolicy");

for ASP.NET Core 3.1 this soleved my Problem https://jasonwatmore.com/post/2020/05/20/aspnet-core-api-allow-cors-requests-from-any-origin-and-with-credentials

public class Startup
    {
        public Startup(IConfiguration configuration)
        {
            Configuration = configuration;
        }

        public IConfiguration Configuration { get; }

        // This method gets called by the runtime. Use this method to add services to the container.
        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            services.AddCors();
            services.AddControllers();
        }

        // This method gets called by the runtime. Use this method to configure the HTTP request pipeline.
        public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env)
        {
            app.UseRouting();

            // global cors policy
            app.UseCors(x => x
                .AllowAnyMethod()
                .AllowAnyHeader()
                .SetIsOriginAllowed(origin => true) // allow any origin
                .AllowCredentials()); // allow credentials

            app.UseAuthentication();
            app.UseAuthorization();

            app.UseEndpoints(x => x.MapControllers());
        }
    }

The

Microsoft.AspNetCore.Cors

will allow you to do CORS with built-in features, but it does not handle OPTIONS request. The best workaround so far is creating a new Middleware as suggested in a previous post. Check the answer marked as correct in the following post:

Enable OPTIONS header for CORS on .NET Core Web API

Based on your comment in MindingData's answer, it has nothing to do with your CORS, it's working fine.

Your Controller action is returning the wrong data. HttpCode 415 means, "Unsupported Media type". This happens when you either pass the wrong format to the controller (i.e. XML to a controller which only accepts json) or when you return a wrong type (return Xml in a controller which is declared to only return xml).

For later one check existence of [Produces("...")]attribute on your action

For .NET CORE 3.1

In my case, I was using https redirection just before adding cors middleware and able to fix the issue by changing order of them

What i mean is:

change this:

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env)
    {

      ...
        
        app.UseHttpsRedirection();  

        app.UseCors(x => x
            .AllowAnyOrigin()
            .AllowAnyMethod()
            .AllowAnyHeader());

      ...

     }

to this:

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env)
    {

      ...
        
        app.UseCors(x => x
            .AllowAnyOrigin()
            .AllowAnyMethod()
            .AllowAnyHeader());

        app.UseHttpsRedirection(); 

      ...

     }

By the way, allowing requests from any origins and methods may not be a good idea for production stage, you should write your own cors policies at production.

Here is my code : )

  app.Use((ctx, next) =>
        {
            ctx.Response.Headers.Add("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", ctx.Request.Headers["Origin"]);
            ctx.Response.Headers.Add("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "*");
            ctx.Response.Headers.Add("Access-Control-Allow-Credentials", "true");
            ctx.Response.Headers.Add("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "AccessToken,Content-Type");
            ctx.Response.Headers.Add("Access-Control-Expose-Headers", "*");
            if (ctx.Request.Method.ToLower() == "options")
            {
                ctx.Response.StatusCode = 204;

                return Task.CompletedTask;
            }
            return next();
        });

services.AddMvc().SetCompatibilityVersion(CompatibilityVersion.Version_2_2)
                .AddJsonOptions(options => {
                    var resolver = options.SerializerSettings.ContractResolver;
                    if (resolver != null)
                        (resolver as DefaultContractResolver).NamingStrategy = null;
                });

            services.AddDbContext<PaymentDetailContext>(options => options.UseSqlServer(Configuration.GetConnectionString("DevConnection"))); //Dependency Injection
            // options => options.UseSqlServer() Lamda Expression

            services.AddCors(options =>
            {
                options.AddPolicy(MyAllowSpecificOrigins,
                    builder =>
                    {
                        builder.WithOrigins("http://localhost:4200").AllowAnyHeader()
                                .AllowAnyMethod(); ;
                    });
            });

try adding jQuery.support.cors = true; before the Ajax call

It could also be that the data your sending to the API is wonky,

try adding the following JSON function

        var JSON = JSON || {};

    // implement JSON.stringify serialization
    JSON.stringify = JSON.stringify || function (obj) {

        var t = typeof (obj);
        if (t != "object" || obj === null) {

            // simple data type
            if (t == "string") obj = '"' + obj + '"';
            return String(obj);

        }
        else {

            // recurse array or object
            var n, v, json = [], arr = (obj && obj.constructor == Array);

            for (n in obj) {
                v = obj[n]; t = typeof (v);

                if (t == "string") v = '"' + v + '"';
                else if (t == "object" && v !== null) v = JSON.stringify(v);

                json.push((arr ? "" : '"' + n + '":') + String(v));
            }

            return (arr ? "[" : "{") + String(json) + (arr ? "]" : "}");
        }
    };

    // implement JSON.parse de-serialization
    JSON.parse = JSON.parse || function (str) {
        if (str === "") str = '""';
        eval("var p=" + str + ";");
        return p;
    };

then in your data: object change it to

    data: JSON.stringify({
        username: username,
        password: password
    }),

In my case only get request works well according to MindingData's answer. For other types of request you need to write:

app.UseCors(corsPolicyBuilder =>
   corsPolicyBuilder.WithOrigins("http://localhost:3000")
  .AllowAnyMethod()
  .AllowAnyHeader()
);

Don't forget to add .AllowAnyHeader()

Simple and easy way to do it.

1. Install package

Install-Package Microsoft.AspNetCore.Cors

2. Put this below code in startup.cs file

app.UseCors(options => options.AllowAnyOrigin());

Just to add to answer here, if you are using app.UseHttpsRedirection(), and you are hitting not SSL port consider commenting out this.

.NET Core 3.1

Worked for me and how the docs say to do it:

in Startup class:

readonly string MyAllowSpecificOrigins = "_myAllowSpecificOrigins"; 

In ConfigureServices() method:

    services.AddCors(options =>
    {
        options.AddPolicy(MyAllowSpecificOrigins,
        builder =>
        {
            builder.WithOrigins("http://example.com",
                                "http://www.contoso.com");
        });
    });

In Configure() method:

    app.UseCors(MyAllowSpecificOrigins);  

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/cors?view=aspnetcore-3.1

    public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env)
    {      
       app.UseCors(builder => builder
                .AllowAnyHeader()
                .AllowAnyMethod()
                .SetIsOriginAllowed((host) => true)
                .AllowCredentials()
            );
    }

    public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
    {
        services.AddCors();
    }

AspNetCoreModuleV2 cannot handle OPTIONS causing a preflight issue

I discovered that .net core module does not handle OPTIONS well which makes a big CORS problem:

Solution: remove the star *

In web.config, exclude OPTIONS verb from the module because this verb is already handled by the IIS OPTIONSVerbHandler:

 <add name="aspNetCore" path="*" verb="* modules="AspNetCoreModuleV2" resourceType="Unspecified" />

with this one

<add name="aspNetCore" path="*" verb="GET,POST,PUT,DELETE" modules="AspNetCoreModuleV2" resourceType="Unspecified" />

The solution that worked for me in ASP.NET Core 3.1:

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            services.AddCors(options =>
            {
                options.AddPolicy("CorsPolicy",
                    builder => builder.AllowAnyOrigin()
                    .AllowAnyMethod()
                    .AllowAnyHeader());
            });
            services.AddControllersWithViews();
        }

and then change the following:

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env)
        {
            app.UseCors("CorsPolicy");

            if (env.IsDevelopment())
            {
                app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();
            }
            else
            {
                app.UseExceptionHandler("/Home/Error");
                // The default HSTS value is 30 days. You may want to change this for production scenarios, see https://aka.ms/aspnetcore-hsts.
                app.UseHsts();
            }
            app.UseHttpsRedirection();
            app.UseStaticFiles();

            app.UseRouting();
            app.UseAuthentication();
            app.UseAuthorization();

            app.UseEndpoints(endpoints =>
            {
                endpoints.MapControllerRoute(
                    name: "default",
                    pattern: "{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id?}");
            });
        }

Then program worked and error was solved.

In my case I fixed with UseCors before UserRouting..

below is the settings which works for me:

For me, it had nothing to do with the code that I was using. For Azure we had to go into the settings of the App Service, on the side menu the entry "CORS". There I had to add the domain that I was requesting stuff from. Once I had that in, everything was magic.

In my case character / at the end of my origin name was causing an issue.

Solution that worked out for me in .NET Core 3.1:

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    services.AddCors(c => c.AddPolicy("PolicyName", policy => {
        policy.WithOrigins("http://localhost:3000")
        .AllowAnyMethod()
        .AllowAnyHeader();
    }));
}

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env)
{
    app.UseCors("PolicyName");
}

I was using blazor webassembly as client and asp.net web api core as backend and had cors problem too.

I found solution with these code:

My ASP.Net core web api Startup.cs ConfigureServices and Configure methods first lines looks like this:

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
   services.AddCors(options => options.AddPolicy("ApiCorsPolicy", builder =>
   {
        builder.WithOrigins("http://example.com").AllowAnyMethod().AllowAnyHeader();
    }));

 //other code below...
}

and my Configure method:

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env)
{
    app.UseCors(
        options =>   options.WithOrigins("http://example.com").AllowAnyMethod().AllowAnyHeader()
            );
 //other code below...
}

change http://example.com with your client domain or ip address

Here is how I did this.

I see that in some answers they are setting app.UserCors("xxxPloicy") and putting [EnableCors("xxxPloicy")] in controllers. You do not need to do both.

Here are the steps.

In Startup.cs inside the ConfigureServices add the following code.

    services.AddCors(c=>c.AddPolicy("xxxPolicy",builder => {
        builder.AllowAnyOrigin()
        .AllowAnyMethod()
        .AllowAnyHeader();
    }));

If you want to apply all over the project then add the following code in Configure method in Startup.cs

app.UseCors("xxxPolicy");

Or

If you want to add it to the specific controllers then add enable cors code as shown below.

[EnableCors("xxxPolicy")]
[Route("api/[controller]")]
[ApiController]
public class TutorialController : ControllerBase {}

For more info: see this

Simplest solution is add

    public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env)
    {
        if (env.IsDevelopment())
        {
            app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();
        }
        else
        {
            app.UseHsts();
        }

        app.UseCors(options => options.AllowAnyOrigin());

        app.UseHttpsRedirection();
        app.UseMvc();
    }

to Startup.cs.