RASA Core: --cors parameter does not apply to socket.io

dariofiore · December 31, 2018, 4:07pm

In my point of view, the rasa core paramter --cors “*” (according to [Unable to enable CORS from HTTP API · Issue #404 · RasaHQ/rasa_core · GitHub](http://RASA_CORE Issue 404)) works for the REST-API but does not work for socket.io channel. Is my assumption right? It would be great, if it can be fixed.

REST Header: Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Socket.io Header: Access-Control-Allow-Origin: null

Kind regards, Dario

ricwo · January 9, 2019, 9:56pm

Hi @dariofiore, you may add CORS capability to the socket.io input channel by providing the Server() with the cors_allowed_origins keyword argument here:

https://github.com/RasaHQ/rasa_core/blob/master/rasa_core/channels/socketio.py#L124

From the socketio.server docs:

cors_allowed_origins: List of origins that are allowed to connect to this server. All origins are allowed by default.

I hope that helps!

humbertocruz · August 1, 2019, 6:55pm

Hello, how are you ? I wonder to know how to pass this keyword to socketio.Server. What files should I change ? I tried to put the cors_allowed_origins in credentials.yml file o rasa at the socketio session but it didnt works.

Thanks

ricwo · August 4, 2019, 1:22pm

Hi @humbertocruz, welcome to the forum! You can try making the relevant change here:

github.com

RasaHQ/rasa/blob/1.2.0/rasa/core/channels/socketio.py#L135


    session_persistence: bool = False,
    socketio_path: Optional[Text] = "/socket.io",
):
    self.bot_message_evt = bot_message_evt
    self.session_persistence = session_persistence
    self.user_message_evt = user_message_evt
    self.namespace = namespace
    self.socketio_path = socketio_path

def blueprint(self, on_new_message):
    sio = AsyncServer(async_mode="sanic")
    socketio_webhook = SocketBlueprint(
        sio, self.socketio_path, "socketio_webhook", __name__
    )

    @socketio_webhook.route("/", methods=["GET"])
    async def health(request: Request):
        return response.json({"status": "ok"})

    @sio.on("connect", namespace=self.namespace)
    async def connect(sid, environ):

I haven’t tested this myself and would be interested to hear if you have any success

Serge · September 8, 2019, 3:06am

I noticed the same with Rasa X - regardless if you specify cors * or not, it doesn’t work. Not a problem though with Rasa server (at least not with 1.1.x).

Are you using Rasa or Rasa X?

Serge · September 13, 2019, 2:11am

Just curious why not fix this error? I really don’t like the idea of having to hack the rasa code after installation. If the rasa run CLI documentation states i can pass --cors “*” why would the websocket channel (without any note about it) be excluded, where it’s a simple 2nd parameter into the method.

sio = AsyncServer(async_mode=“sanic”)

@erohmensing FYI Maybe at least add do documentation to state that websocket currently doesn’t support the --cors param from rasa run. I think rasa x also suffers from this. My Rasa Version is 1.1.4 and pytho 3.6.8, Ubuntu 16.04 and Debian 9

Serge · September 23, 2019, 6:39pm

@akelad and @Tobias_Wochinger We upgraded to Rasa 1.2.9 (using 1.2.9 tagged Docker rasa image with python 3.6.9) and picked up a “fix”, which now even broke Firefox XHR (before only Chrome was complaining, but could get local dev done in Firefox) . While the fix does not outright cause “origin not allowed” error, but it causes browsers to complain about the following:

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at http://localhost:5013/socket.io/?EIO=3&transport=polling&t=MrVJE93. (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing).

Even with --cors “*” flag

sanic.root - CORS: Configuring CORS with resources: {'/*': {'origins': ['.*'], 'methods': 'DELETE, GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, PATCH, POST, PUT', 'allow_headers': ['.*'], 'expose_headers': None, 'supports_credentials': False, 'max_age': None, 'send_wildcard': False, 'automatic_options': True, 'vary_header': True, 'resources': {'/*': {'origins': ['*']}}, 'intercept_exceptions': True, 'always_send': True}}

What happens is that the UI keeps trying due to missing header error:

2019-09-23 18:31:04 DEBUG    rasa.model  - Extracted model to '/tmp/tmp0mpz4mxe'.
2019-09-23 18:31:04 DEBUG    pykwalify.compat  - Using yaml library: /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ruamel/yaml/__init__.py
2019-09-23 18:31:09 INFO     engineio.server  - ff77025bcce544dc83dacb30c2ee2a7f: Sending packet OPEN data {'sid': 'ff77025bcce544dc83dacb30c2ee2a7f', 'upgrades': ['websocket'], 'pingTimeout': 60000, 'pingInterval': 25000}
2019-09-23 18:31:09 DEBUG    rasa.core.channels.socketio  - User ff77025bcce544dc83dacb30c2ee2a7f connected to socketIO endpoint.
2019-09-23 18:31:09 INFO     engineio.server  - ff77025bcce544dc83dacb30c2ee2a7f: Sending packet MESSAGE data 0
2019-09-23 18:31:14 INFO     engineio.server  - b70b1bbc9b93413db19c6d57e278f9be: Sending packet OPEN data {'sid': 'b70b1bbc9b93413db19c6d57e278f9be', 'upgrades': ['websocket'], 'pingTimeout': 60000, 'pingInterval': 25000}
2019-09-23 18:31:14 DEBUG    rasa.core.channels.socketio  - User b70b1bbc9b93413db19c6d57e278f9be connected to socketIO endpoint.
2019-09-23 18:31:14 INFO     engineio.server  - b70b1bbc9b93413db19c6d57e278f9be: Sending packet MESSAGE data 0

The only true fix that ever worked was this one:

I.e. set cors_allowed_origins='’ or enhance the code to pass the --cors "" into AsyncServer.

There are newer comments in the thread that indicate that it’s not behaving well still:

github.com/miguelgrinberg/python-socketio

How to resolve multiple CORS values in socketio requests, Sanic?

opened 04:03PM - 09 Oct 18 UTC

closed 04:11PM - 19 May 19 UTC

RuWander

bug

Hi, I am having trouble with CORS in python-socketio. I have built a Restful AP…I in Sanic and I am consuming the API with Angular 6. I have added socketio functionality with Python-socketio, however, I am receiving the following error in the browser: `Failed to load http://192.168.33.11:7770/socket.io/?EIO=3&transport=polling&t=MPP6E-6: The 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header contains multiple values 'http://localhost:4200, http://localhost:4200', but only one is allowed. Origin 'http://localhost:4200' is therefore not allowed access.` It seems to be adding two origins to the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header. ![python-socketio](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/32813688/46674168-ca78f080-cbdb-11e8-9614-fbbc756e1692.PNG) I have tried setting the cors_allowed_origins to a list containing the http://localhost:4200 but that did not work. I also had to install the Sanic_Cors ([https://github.com/ashleysommer/sanic-cors](url)) module in order to allow CORS for the normal API routes. If I remove the CORS(app) from the below configuration the socket connections seem to be working. My server currently looks like this: sio = socketio.AsyncServer(async_mode='sanic', cors_credentials=True) app = Sanic() app.config['CORS_AUTOMATIC_OPTIONS'] = True sio.attach(app) CORS(app) **Is there a way to have these two modules work in harmony, or to fix the origin header in the Socketio module**? I hope you can help me. I appreciate any help in advance! Thanks!

Can we just not pass in the rasa run --cors param into AsyncServer? I tried setting the AsyncServer 2nd parameter to both * and “http://localhost:8080” and both work. So we can propagate that from command line, that would maybe finally fix this problem.
It is only that ‘*’ parameter into AsyncServer that will cause it to return the proper header allowing the request:

Unless I am missing something? @Tobias_Wochinger How did you make it work?

Thank you!

akelad · October 2, 2019, 7:35am

@Serge have you tried also adding the --enable-api flag to your run command? That was needed for the version you’re referring to. With the latest release now I think you can ommit that flag and it should work fine

cafarmer · January 7, 2020, 3:01pm

Am I missing something here?

I built a new environment with Fedora 29 Server, installed Rasa and launched it. I can launch Rasa X and/or Rasa (rasa run -m models --enable-api --endpoints endpoints.yml --cors “*”) and get a response from both Rasa X and Rasa Core in my browser. However, when trying to use a NodeJS client (rasa-api - npm) I keep getting a cors error.

[Error] Origin http://localhost:3000 is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin. [Error] Fetch API cannot load http://192.168.207.223:5005/model/parse?project=default&token=access_token_one due to access control checks. [Error] Failed to load resource: Origin http://localhost:3000 is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin. (parse, line 0) [Error] TypeError: Origin http://localhost:3000 is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin. (anonymous function) (main.chunk.js:119) promiseReactionJob

First question: How do I set a fixed IP for everything? Second question: The api calls for the following (I realize the api is not created by Rasa). Rasa(’’, ‘’,’’, ‘’). Where can I get the Project Name and Server Access Token?

EDIT: I did try to change the line in socket.py from

sio = AsyncServer(async_mode= “sanic” , cors_allowed_origins=[ ])

to

sio = AsyncServer(async_mode= “sanic”, cors_allowed_origins=[ “*” ])

and

sio = AsyncServer(async_mode= “sanic”, cors_allowed_origins="*")

It didn’t work…

Thanks!

-Chris

akelad · January 14, 2020, 2:45pm

@cafarmer are you still having this issue? If yes, would you be able to format your post and also provide some more details, e.g. what request you’re sending?

cafarmer · January 14, 2020, 6:24pm

I am still having the problem with the rasa-api component, but I was able to get around it by leveraging the “request” component in my React application. I am able to match intent through the model and communicate with the Webhooks api (‘http://192.168.207.223:5005/webhooks/rest/webhook’). I think there was a difference on how the rasa-api component tried to talk to Rasa that would not work with without a CORS exception/host specified. So I am not really sure I am on the right track, but at least I got something to work.

Thanks!

-Chris

Like this:

Model to match intent

const Request = require('request');

var options = { 
  method: 'POST',
  url: 'http://192.168.207.223:5005/model/parse',
  body: { "text": this.state.queryString },
  json: true };

Request(options, function (error, response, body) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);
  console.log('rasa matched intent: ' + body.intent.name);
  });

Webhooks to converse

const Request = require('request');

var options = { 
  method: 'POST',
  url: 'http://192.168.207.223:5005/webhooks/rest/webhook',
  body: {"sender":"John Galt","message":"Hello"},
  json: true };

Request(options, function (error, response, body) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);
  console.log(body);
  });

Serge · February 12, 2020, 5:15am

@akelad I still have on the TODO list to try the --enable-api option with 1.1.4. Doesn’t seem to complain, but i haven’t done a negative test to confirm.

But just upgraded to 1.6.2 and immediately got CORS violation in both chrome and firefox and then setting --cors ‘*’ definitely had an affect and stopped complaining about cors and started working. And in 1.6.2 without the --enable-api

And just to clarify, this is not Rasa X but rather Rasa server (Open Source) and this https and ws communication over websocket channel.

akelad · February 17, 2020, 10:13am

So everything works with the latest version now?

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