Tasklist graphql cors problem

Camunda 8 Topics Discussion & Questions
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Hi,

I’m running the Tasklist app on self-managed Camunda 8 platform behind a nginx reverse proxy which makes the TLS termination and upstreams to http://tasklist:8080.
I can successfully login with the demo user but nothing is loaded because the POST /graphql returns a 403 with body Invalid CORS request.

Does the Tasklist App recognizes the X-Forwarded-Host, X-Forwarded-Proto, X-Forwarded-Port headers?
Or is there a cors configuration?

Best regards,
Nathanael

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Today I remembered how to configure a spring boot app behind a reverse proxy and voilà it works: SERVER_FORWARDHEADERSSTRATEGY=native

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Thanks @nathanael for coming back and share your solution with us :bowing_man:

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This made my day, thank you!

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Hi @nathanael, I am facing same issue when trying to login to Tasklist that POST /graphql returns http 403 Invalid CORS request. My cluster is a self-managed instance and I have below Ingres controller for Tasklist. Based on Invalid CORS request, I have tried with highlighted option and annotations but the issue still persists.

tasklist:
      ingress:
        enabled: true
        host: "<tasklist_external_host>"
        port: 80
        **options:**
          **use-forwarded-headers: true**
        annotations:
          nginx.org/mergeable-ingress-type: minion
          ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: "/"
          nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-redirect: "false"
          **nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/enable-cors: "true"**
          **nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/cors-allow-headers: "X-Forwarded-For"**

Can you please mention where exactly did you specify SERVER_FORWARDHEADERSSTRATEGY=native to resolve this issue? Thanks.

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Hi Hemal,

SERVER_FORWARDHEADERSSTRATEGY=native is a spring boot configuration variable that the X-Forwarded Headers are evaluated by the spring app. You should set it as environment variable at your tasklist container, not ingress.

Regards, Nathanael

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Hi @Hemal,

Did setting the “SERVER_FORWARDHEADERSSTRATEGY=native” environment variable on your tasklist container resolve the issue? I am running trying a similar setup behind a nginx reverse proxy which makes the TLS termination and upstreams to the tasklist service. I tried setting the “SERVER_FORWARDHEADERSSTRATEGY=native” environment variable on the tasklist container but continue to get the 403 with body Invalid CORS request .

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Hi @slandry , nope it didn’t resolve the issue for me. I have not proceeded from that point due to other issues. In my case, we’re deploying Camunda in an AWS Kubernetes cluster so I know the whole cluster is behind an application load balancer as well where I might need to debug into.

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Hi @Hemal,

Thank you for following up. We are also using an AWS kubernetes cluster. There is network load balanacer in front of the app. I am going to try a few more things today. Its only the tasklist application experiencing the issue. I am able to use the operate app without any special configuration.

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Hi I have the same issue with the tasklist/graphql returning a 403 with body Invalid CORS request .

I am using the self managed helm charts, using azure appgateway with TLS termination and nginx reverse proxy. I am using version 8.2.11

I have set the environment variable in my helm values file
tasklist:
…
env:

  • name: “SERVER_FORWARDHEADERSSTRATEGY”
    value: “native”

and also set the ingress annotations

nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/configuration-snippet: |
more_set_headers “X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for”;
more_set_headers “X-Forwarded-Host $host”;
more_set_headers “X-Forwarded-Proto https”;
more_set_headers “X-Real-IP $remote_addr”;
more_set_headers “X-Forwarded-Port $server_port”;

Any help much appreciated
Thanks
Darren

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