antoniopresto/cors-proxy

Simple AWS Lambda based proxy server for making CORS requests from browser to any HTTP server

CORS proxy

Simple AWS Lambda based proxy server for making CORS requests from browser to any HTTP server.

Run locally

1. Install

npm install

2. Run

node_modules/.bin/serverless offline

3. Use

Open your browser and go to http://localhost:3000/?url=<origin page>. For example:

http://localhost:3000/?url=https://github.com/

Run on AWS

0. Requirements

You need AWS account first. Also you need your IAM user has access to deploy AWS lambdas.

1. Install

npm install

2. Deploy

node_modules/.bin/serverless config credentials --provider aws --key <aws_key> --secret <aws_secret>
node_modules/.bin/serverless deploy --region <aws_region>

You will see such console response:

Serverless: Packaging service...
Serverless: Excluding development dependencies...
Serverless: Creating Stack...
Serverless: Checking Stack create progress...
.....
Serverless: Stack create finished...
Serverless: Uploading CloudFormation file to S3...
Serverless: Uploading artifacts...
Serverless: Uploading service .zip file to S3 (16.08 MB)...
Serverless: Validating template...
Serverless: Updating Stack...
Serverless: Checking Stack update progress...
..............................
Serverless: Stack update finished...
Service Information
service: cors-proxy
stage: dev
region: eu-central-1
stack: cors-proxy-dev
api keys:
  None
endpoints:
  GET - https://qwertyuiop.execute-api.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/dev/
functions:
  lambda: cors-proxy-dev-lambda

3. Use

Open your browser and use endpoint field from previous console response as base address. For example:

https://qwertyuiop.execute-api.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/dev/?url=https://github.com/