Suggest possible wrong Socket.IO URL instead of CORS error
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Description
A lot of people seem to be mistaking the error No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource for lack of CORS support in Socket.IO.
This seems to be due to usually trying to initialize a socket to the wrong URL. The URL exists and responds, but obviously it doesn't set CORS headers. And even if it did, it wouldn't be where the socket.io server is hosted.
Maybe we could console.warn in these situations to warn the developer about a potential URL error.
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Research direction
No files or tests are named. Start by tracing the client connection error handling for CORS-related failures and determine whether a wrong Socket.IO URL can be identified reliably; done should include a console warning for likely URL mistakes without mislabeling genuine CORS problems.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- networking
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
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