On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 10:42 PM, Ahmed Fasih wuzzyview@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, and a thousand apologies if I'm in the wrong place to ask about this.
I'm making a web-based tool that makes a web request to a CSV file at https://wikistats.wmflabs.org — however, because that webserver hasn't enabled CORS (cross-origin resource sharing), most browsers can't fetch the file.
To see this, open your browser to any non-WMFlabs.org URL (like github.com), then open the JavaScript Console, and type in the following:
fetch('https://wikistats.wmflabs.org/api.php?action=dump&table=wikipedias&f... => res.json()).then(x=>console.log(x))
Firefox for example will tell you, "Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://wikistats.wmflabs.org/api.php?action=dump&table=wikipedias&f.... (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing). TypeError: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource."
Assuming Wikistats, the Cloud team, and the Wikimedia Foundation *do* indeed want this data to be loadable by JavaScript running on any domain, the standard way to fix this is to add the "Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *" header to all responses sent by the webserver. More detail is available at https://enable-cors.org/
I dug around for a while looking for a way to reach someone who might be in charge of the https://wikistats.wmflabs.org webserver, and if I'm in the wrong place, please accept my apologies.
Information about the actual Cloud VPS project is available at https://tools.wmflabs.org/openstack-browser/project/wikistats.
I think Daniel Zahn is the primary maintainer of this tool. The "bugs" link in the navigation menu for wikistats.wmflabs.org points to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/vps-project-wikistats/. That is probably a good place to file a feature request, but Daniel may see it here as well.
Bryan