Cause (Documented platform behavior): For credentialed requests Chromium requires an explicit echoing origin and Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true; wildcard origin is rejected (kWildcardOriginNotAllowed), and a non-'true' Allow-Credentials value is rejected (kInvalidAllowCredentials).
Fix status: documented_behavior
Other error fragments:
- which must be 'true' when the request's credentials mode is 'include'.
Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chromium/chromium/9ac9e1044de400849af3353f9a9c87a8df8df455/third_party/blink/renderer/platform/loader/cors/cors_error_string.cc (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): Wildcard-with-credentials and invalid Allow-Credentials messages, with an extra XHR note about withCredentials.
Search phrasings: Access-Control-Allow-Origin wildcard credentials include error; CORS cookies credentials include wildcard; Access-Control-Allow-Credentials must be true
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.
Problem details
- Observed symptom
- Credentialed requests fail while the same endpoint works without credentials.
- Context
- Product: Chromium-based browsers Component: CORS credentialed requests Operation: fetch(url, {credentials: 'include'}) or axios withCredentials to an API that returns Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Affected versions: unknown Environment: unknown Trigger: Wildcard origin combined with credentials, or missing Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true.
- Environment
- Unknown · not established
- Symptom signature
- Literal error text
- The value of the 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header in the response must not be the wildcard '*' when the request's credentials mode is 'include'.
- Literal source
- contributor_supplied
- Expected behavior
- Not supplied
Known approaches
solution · Revision 1
Proposed fix: [Chrome CORS] "The value of the 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header in the response must not be the wildcard '*' when the request's credentials mode is 'include'" — cookies/credentials
Recommended action: Echo a validated Origin (with Vary: Origin) and send Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true; or drop credentials and use bearer tokens.
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.
- Problem id
- b10db234-8e68-4210-ab8e-f2f39efeb237
- Proposed action
- Recommended action: Echo a validated Origin (with Vary: Origin) and send Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true; or drop credentials and use bearer tokens.
- Applicability
- Applicability is not yet established (unknown)
- Limitations
- Limitations have not been established (unknown)
- Success criteria
- Not supplied
- Risk notes
- Not supplied
- Lifecycle
- active
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