I get "Http failure response for (unknown url): 0 Unknown Error" instead of actual error message in Angular

Question

I'm using Angular 4 HttpClient to send requests to external service. It is a very standard setup:

this.httpClient.get(url).subscribe(response => {
  //do something with response
}, err => {
  console.log(err.message);
}, () => {
  console.log('completed');
}

The problem is, when the request fails I see a generic Http failure response for (unknown url): 0 Unknown Error message in console. Meanwhile, when I inspect the failed request in chrome I can see the response status is 422, and in the "preview" tab I see the actual message desribing failure cause.

How do I access the actual response message I can see in chrome dev tools?

Here's a screenshot demonstrating the problem:

user_1085632 · Answer

The problem was related to CORS. I noticed that there was another error in Chrome console:

No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:4200' is therefore not allowed access. The response had HTTP status code 422.`

This means the response from backend server was missing Access-Control-Allow-Origin header even though backend nginx was configured to add those headers to the responses with add_header directive.

However, this directive only adds headers when response code is 20X or 30X. On error responses the headers were missing. I needed to use always parameter to make sure header is added regardless of the response code:

add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' 'http://localhost:4200' always;

Once the backend was correctly configured I could access actual error message in Angular code.

user_2115809 · Answer

In case anyone else ends up as lost as I was... My issues were NOT due to CORS (I have full control of the server(s) and CORS was configured correctly!).

My issue was because I am using Android platform level 28 which disables cleartext network communications by default and I was trying to develop the app which points at my laptop's IP (which is running the API server). The API base URL is something like http://[LAPTOP_IP]:8081. Since it's not https, android webview completely blocks the network xfer between the phone/emulator and the server on my laptop. In order to fix this:

Add a network security config

New file in project: resources/android/xml/network_security_config.xml

NOTE: This should be used carefully as it will allow all cleartext from your app (nothing forced to use https). You can restrict it further if you wish.

Reference the config in main config.xml

That's it! From there I rebuilt the APK and the app was now able to communicate from both the emulator and phone.

More info on network sec: https://developer.android.com/training/articles/security-config.html#CleartextTrafficPermitted

user_3139288 · Answer

working for me after turn off ads block extension in chrome, this error sometime appear because something that block http in browser

user_7814211 · Answer

If you are using .NET Core application, this solution might help!

Moreover this might not be an Angular or other request error in your front end application

First, you have to add the Microsoft CORS Nuget package:

Install-Package Microsoft.AspNetCore.Cors

You then need to add the CORS services in your startup.cs. In your ConfigureServices method you should have something similar to the following:

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    services.AddCors();
}

Next, add the CORS middleware to your app. In your startup.cs you should have a Configure method. You need to have it similar to this:

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, 
ILoggerFactory loggerFactory)
{
    app.UseCors( options => 
    options.AllowAnyOrigin().AllowAnyMethod().AllowAnyHeader());
    app.UseMvc();
}

The options lambda is a fluent API so you can add/remove any extra options you need. You can actually use the option “AllowAnyOrigin” to accept any domain, but I highly recommend you do not do this as it opens up cross origin calls from anyone. You can also limit cross origin calls to their HTTP Method (GET/PUT/POST etc), so you can only expose GET calls cross domain etc.

user_1552658 · Answer

This error was occurring for me in Firefox but not Chrome while developing locally, and it turned out to be caused by Firefox not trusting my local API's ssl certificate (which is not valid, but I had added it to my local cert store, which let chrome trust it but not ff). Navigating to the API directly and adding an exception in Firefox fixed the issue.

user_984471 · Answer

A similar error can occur, when you didn't give a valid client certificate and token that your server understands:

Error:

Http failure response for (unknown url): 0 Unknown Error

Example code:

import { HttpClient, HttpHeaders } from '@angular/common/http';
import { Observable, throwError } from 'rxjs';
import { catchError, map } from 'rxjs/operators';

class MyCls1 {

  constructor(private http: HttpClient) {
  }

  public myFunc(): void {

    let http: HttpClient;

    http.get(
      'https://www.example.com/mypage',
      {
        headers:
          new HttpHeaders(
            {
              'Content-Type': 'application/json',
              'X-Requested-With': 'XMLHttpRequest',
              'MyClientCert': '',        // This is empty
              'MyToken': ''              // This is empty
            }
          )
      }
    ).pipe( map(res => res), catchError(err => throwError(err)) );
  }

}

Note that both MyClientCert & MyToken are empty strings, hence the error.
MyClientCert & MyToken can be any name that your server understands.

user_606725 · Answer

If this is a node service, try the steps outlined here

Basically, it's a Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) error. More information about such errors here.

Once I updated my node service with the following lines it worked:

let express = require("express");
let app = express();

app.use(function(req, res, next) {
    res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
    res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept");    
    next();
  });

user_4306798 · Answer

I was getting that exact message whenever my requests took more than 2 minutes to finish. The browser would disconnect from the request, but the request on the backend continued until it was finished. The server (ASP.NET Web API in my case) wouldn't detect the disconnect.

After an entire day searching, I finally found this answer, explaining that if you use the proxy config, it has a default timeout of 120 seconds (or 2 minutes).

So, you can edit your proxy configuration and set it to whatever you need:

{
  "/api": {
    "target": "http://localhost:3000",
    "secure": false,
    "timeout": 6000000
  }
}

Now, I was using agentkeepalive to make it work with NTLM authentication, and didn't know that the agent's timeout has nothing to do with the proxy's timeout, so both have to be set. It took me a while to realize that, so here's an example:

const Agent = require('agentkeepalive');

module.exports = {
    '/api/': {
        target: 'http://localhost:3000',
        secure: false,
        timeout: 6000000,          // <-- this is needed as well
        agent: new Agent({
            maxSockets: 100,
            keepAlive: true,
            maxFreeSockets: 10,
            keepAliveMsecs: 100000,
            timeout: 6000000,      // <-- this is for the agentkeepalive
            freeSocketTimeout: 90000
        }),
        onProxyRes: proxyRes => {
            let key = 'www-authenticate';
            proxyRes.headers[key] = proxyRes.headers[key] &&
                proxyRes.headers[key].split(',');
        }
    }
};

Simon_16940 · Answer

I'm using ASP.NET SPA Extensions which creates me a proxy on ports 5000 and 5001 that pass through to Angular's port 4200 during development.

I had had CORS correctly setup for https port 5001 and everything was fine, but I inadvertently went to an old bookmark which was for port 5000. Then suddenly this message arose. As others have said in the console there was a 'preflight' error message.

So regardless of your environment, if you're using CORS make sure you have all ports specified - as the host and port both matter.

user_1469494 · Answer

For me it was a browser issue, since my requests were working fine in Postman.

Turns out that for some reason, Firefox and Chrome blocked requests going to port 6000, once I changed the ASP.NET API port to 4000, the error changed to a known CORS error which I could fix.

Chrome at least showed me ERR_UNSAFE_PORT which gave me a clue about what could be wrong.

user_7753434 · Answer

If you are using Laravel as your Backend, then edit your .htaccess file by just pasting this code, to solve problem CROS in your Angular or IONIC project

Header add Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
Header add Access-Control-Allow-Methods: "GET,POST,OPTIONS,DELETE,PUT"

user_2004532 · Answer

If you have a proper cors header in place. Your corporate network may be stripping off the cors header. If the website is externally accessible, try accessing it from outside your network to verify whether the network is causing the problem--a good idea regardless of the cause.

user_11314089 · Answer

Add This Codes in your connection file

header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *");
header("Access-Control-Allow-Methods: PUT,GET,POST,DELETE");
header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept");

user_9514676 · Answer

if you are using nodejs as backend, here are steps to follow

install cors in your backend app

npm install cors

Add this code

 const cors = require('cors');
 const express = require('express');
 const expressApp = express();
 expressApp.use(cors({
     origin: ['http://localhost:4200'],
     "methods": "GET,PUT,POST",
     "preflightContinue": false,
     "optionsSuccessStatus": 204,
     credentials: true
 }));

user_776393 · Answer

Is not as old as other questions, but I just struggled with this in an Ionic-Laravel app, and nothing works from here (and other posts), so I installed https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-cors complement in Laravel and started and it works pretty well.

user_7026936 · Answer

Mine was caused by an invalid relationship in the models I was trying to query. Figured out by debugging the response it crashed at the relation.

user_1855094 · Answer

For me it wasn't an angular problem. Was a field of type DateTime in the DB that has a value of (0000-00-00) and my model cannot bind that property correct so I changed to a valid value like (2019-08-12).

I'm using .net core, OData v4 and MySql (EF pomelo connector)

user_5665952 · Answer

In asp.net core, If your api controller doesn't have annotation called [AllowAnonymous], add it to above your controller name like

[ApiController]
    [Route("api/")]
    [AllowAnonymous]
    public class TestController : ControllerBase

user_14142694 · Answer

You must use --port when serve server ng serve --open --port 4200

    export class DatabaseService {
  baseUrl: String = "http://localhost:8080/";
  constructor(private http: HttpClient) { }


  saveTutorial(response) {
    var fullUrl = this.baseUrl + "api/tutorials";
   
    return this.http.post(fullUrl,response);
  }
}

user_7476931 · Answer

I had the same issue. I used grdl's answer above and added a cors configuration to my server like the one below and the problem was solved.

{
"cors": [
    {
      "origin": [“*”],
      "method": ["GET"],
      "responseHeader": ["Content-Type"],
      "maxAgeSeconds": 3600
    }
  ]
}

Look at the specific cors config help for your server to see how to set it up.

user_5063031 · Answer

2022-07-13

This is the easiest way but DON'T with PROD.

Inside index.html, add or edit the existing

user_755164 · Answer

Let do some simple ones:

a) Network is disconnected - zero byte response.

b) I get this when I cancel a http call (yes you can do that)

c) During start up when I move pages too quickly it will cancel http calls because angular has not hooked up properly. I locked page to stop this one occurring.

d) We had a proxy in the middle and it terminated the connection after 30 seconds rather sending a HTTP timeout packet. If you look at the .net logs on back end you will see a client disconnected message. (these are not unusual as a user may just close their browser)

All of these have happened to me and I have no idea how to separate out which cause it is for any specific failure.

user_58142 · Answer

My error was that the file was too large (dotnet core seems to have a limit @~25Mb). Setting

maxAllowedContentLength to 4294967295 (max value of uint) in web.config
decorating the controller action with [DisableRequestSizeLimit]
services.Configure(options => { options.MultipartBodyLengthLimit = 4294967295; }); in Startup.cs

solved the problem for me.

I get "Http failure response for (unknown url): 0 Unknown Error" instead of actual error message in Angular

24 Answers

Add a network security config

Reference the config in main config.xml