I posted a question here but after some investigation I have realised it wasn't my axios request that was causing the issue. I'm not sure how to close a question sorry.
I am receiving the following error when trying to send an Axios Get request to my express backend server. Front end is hosted on localhost:8080 and backend is localhost:5000.
[express-ntlm] Error when parsing Authorization header for URI http://localhost:5000/api/user/generateToken
Here is my Client Side Axios Request
axios.defaults.baseURL = 'http://localhost:5000/';
const generateToken = () => {
axios
.get('/api/user/generateToken', {
withCredentials: true,
})
.then(payload => {
// Set Auth Header with returned JWT Token
})
.catch(err => {
console.log(err.response);
});
This is the first request that is sent after the site is first launched and it should return a JWT Token which I will use to log the user in.
I then have express-ntlm setup to get the users logged in username to check if their in our database and if so return a valid token.
server code that sets up express-ntlm is
const express = require('express');
const http = require('http');
const path = require('path');
const cors = require('cors');
const ntlm = require('express-ntlm');
const passport = require('passport');
const server = express();
server.use(
ntlm({
debug: function() {
var args = Array.prototype.slice.apply(arguments);
console.log.apply(null, args);
},
domain: 'domain',
domaincontroller: 'ldap://domainAddress',
})
);
If I then navigate in a browser directly to http://localhost:5000/api/user/generateToken I get my expected result. however if I use axios.get and proxy to the url I get the above error in my server console and a 400 Bad Request in the client Console.
Here is the Router.get code
// @route GET api/user/generateToken
// @desc Create JWT Token
// @access Public
router.get('/generateToken', (req, res) => {
const errors = {};
const username = req.ntlm.UserName;
return User.findOne({ username }).then(user => {
// Create JWT and return it to the user
});
});
I'm not sure where to go from here its either some aditional settings needed for axios to set the header or something i need to change for express-ntlm. its strange as I can go to the page directly and it works but use axios and it fails
