I’m having an issue with PDF.js and CORS configuration.
From domain A I’m loading PDF.js into an iframe with a file as parameter (full path to the server, which will return a pdf document). PDF.js will create a request to the server at domain B with origin: domain A. The server at domain B returns the pdf document with header Access-Control-Allow-Origin: domain A, so far so good.
In my network tab I see the request to the server, which is returning a 200 status OK, but PDF.js is throwing an error Unexpected server response (0) while retrieving PDF <url>.
The question is, what’s going on here, CORS seems to be ok, but I can’t really get any more info from PDF.js what the real reason is the PDF is failing to load. Is there anyone who encountered the same?
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Answer
Finally found the problem. My server was not passing the Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true header to the response, which was needed (xhr request was sent with xhr.withCredential).
CORS is now working properly.
Found the solution at: https://www.nczonline.net/blog/2010/05/25/cross-domain-ajax-with-cross-origin-resource-sharing/