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AEM 6550 - Stream Binary or Text Content of Provided URL thru AEM for bypassing CORS Issues by Sreekanth Choudry Nalabotu

Abstract

Goal
If you are encountering CORS (Access-Control-Allow-Origin) issues when making client side ajax calls to another server (which does not provide Access-Control-Allow-Origin header in response) from browser, a quick alternative is to proxy the URL from AEM... the following post proxies images or xml content (useful when accessing Scene7 Render Server images...)

Add a servlet apps.experienceaem.assets.ProxyContentServlet to read the url, format and proxy the response through AEM...

package apps.experienceaem.assets;

import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
import org.apache.http.client.config.RequestConfig;
import org.apache.http.client.fluent.Request;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
import org.apache.http.osgi.services.HttpClientBuilderFactory;
import org.apache.sling.api.SlingHttpServletRequest;
import org.apache.sling.api.SlingHttpServletResponse;
import org.apache.sling.api.servlets.SlingAllMethodsServlet;
import org.osgi.service.component.ComponentContext;
import org.osgi.service.component.annotations.Component;
import org.osgi.service.component.annotations.Reference;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import javax.servlet.Servlet;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import java.io.*;

@Component(
name = "Experience AEM Image Proxy Servlet",
immediate = true,
service = Servlet.class,
property = {
"sling.servlet.methods=GET",
"sling.servlet.paths=/bin/experience-aem/proxy"
}
)
public class ProxyContentServlet extends SlingAllMethodsServlet{
private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ProxyContentServlet.class);

private static String IMAGE = "IMAGE";
private static String XML = "XML";

@Reference
private HttpClientBuilderFactory httpClientBuilderFactory;

private CloseableHttpClient httpClient;

protected void activate(ComponentContext ctx) {
HttpClientBuilder builder = httpClientBuilderFactory.newBuilder();

RequestConfig requestConfig = RequestConfig.custom().setConnectTimeout(30000)
.setSocketTimeout(30000).build();

builder.setDefaultRequestConfig(requestConfig);

httpClient = builder.build();

}
@Override
protected final void doGet(SlingHttpServletRequest request, SlingHttpServletResponse response) throws
ServletException, IOException {
try {
String url = request.getParameter("url");
String fileName = request.getParameter("fileName");
String format = request.getParameter("format");

if(StringUtils.isEmpty(url)){
throw new Exception("Empty url");
}

if(StringUtils.isEmpty(format)){
format = IMAGE;
}

if(format.equalsIgnoreCase(IMAGE)){
streamImage(response, url, fileName);
}else if(format.equalsIgnoreCase(XML)){
streamXML(response, url);
}
} catch (Exception e) {
log.error("Could not getting binary response", e);
response.setStatus(SlingHttpServletResponse.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
}
}

private void streamImage(SlingHttpServletResponse response, String url, String fileName) throws Exception{
if(StringUtils.isEmpty(fileName)){
fileName = "eaem.jpg";
}

response.setContentType("application/octet-stream");
response.setHeader("Content-disposition","attachment; filename=" + fileName);

writeContent(response, url);
}

private void streamXML(SlingHttpServletResponse response, String url) throws Exception{
response.setContentType("application/xml");

writeContent(response, url);
}

private void writeContent(SlingHttpServletResponse response, String url) throws Exception{
byte[] image = Request.Get(url).execute().returnContent().asBytes();

InputStream in = new ByteArrayInputStream(image);

OutputStream out = response.getOutputStream();

IOUtils.copy(in, out);

out.close();

in.close();
}
}

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