Use this tag when you see an error message in the DevTools console like “The request client is not a secure context and the resource is in more-private address space local” and you want to know how to deal with the error. Related to RFC 1918 and the Local Network Access specification and Fetch specification.
Questions tagged [private-network-access]
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CORS error on request to localhost dev server from remote site
On Friday I had a working dev environment. On Monday I had a broken one. I encountered this error message in the Chrome dev-tools console for all my assets:
Access to CSS stylesheet at 'http://localhost:8080/build/app.css' from origin…

tvanc
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Chome 102: has been blocked by CORS policy: Request had a targe IP address space of 'unknown' yet the resource is in address space 'private'
We have a web-based system hosted in the LAN (non-SSL).
From Chrome 102 (Windows/Ubuntu), we face a randomly CORS issue which describes as
has been blocked by CORS policy: Request had a targe IP address space
of 'unknown' yet the resource is in…

Mone Xiao
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Private Network Access problem w/ disabled web security: Request had no target IP address space, yet the resource is in address space local
We have a test environment on a public site. There we use --disable-web-security flag on chrome for the testers to bypass CORS errors for public service calls during manual test phase. And also we have localhost requests on the agent machine.…

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Blocked by CORS policy: Request had a target IP address space of `unknown`
Happening only in chrome. Working fine with other browsers e.i Firefox, Edge, etc.
Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://www.example.com/ajax-file.php' from origin 'https://www.example.com' has been blocked by CORS policy: Request had a target IP…

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Spring CORS Filter for Access-Control-Allow-Private-Network not working
I have a webapp hosted on a public URL, trying to call a local webservice API (running on localhost)
I am using Chrome to access the public website, this creates a CORS issue as described…

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Access-Control-Request-Private-Network header issues
Today we updated the last version of google chrome browser (Version 102.0.5005.61). We have an aplication that runs into a vpn. And since then we start getting this errors on the console:
As you can see we get a timed out error on the preflight and…

Mauricio Taranto
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How to allow Access-Control-Allow-Private-Network with an NodeJS / Express webserver?
I have a intranet webserver. It has no certs of any kind and is accessed via http. It is technically a public IP but has no public routing.
On this webserver, I have a single page application that needs to call an https api nodejs/express endpoint…

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Flask, add Access-Control-Allow-Private-Network true to CORS preflight
Chrome warns:
A site requested a resource from a network that it could only access because of its users' privileged network position. These requests expose devices and servers to the internet, increasing the risk of a cross-site request forgery…

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Electron How to avoid CORS-RFC1918 (private network)?
Electron v17, which has chromium v98
My BrowserWindow uses loadURL, and the web page loaded calls api from another host. I cannot modify the web. The web works fine in normal browser like chrome(version 98), though it requires a little cross origin…

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Can we add Access-Control-Allow-Private-Network header to IIS CORS module responses?
Chrome 98 introduces a new CORS scenario with Private Network Access.
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/private-network-access-preflight/
Our application is accessed on internal URLs, but also exposed to the internet by a cloud proxy, using the same…

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Using runtimeArgs --disable-web-security but request still fails: Request had no target IP address space, yet the resource is in address space local
I am trying to access a B2C login page from my localhost VScode using angular 12+
I am getting this error:
Request had no target IP address space, yet the resource is in address space 'local'
In my launch.json file I have:
"runtimeArgs": [
…

Aiswarya Rajagopalan
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CefSharp CORS error on request to localhost: request client is not a secure context and the resource is in more-private address space local
I am building a web app with the following architecture:
remote server
CefSharp to render pages coming from the remote server
local server to communicate the app with a serial port
But when I make requests from the client to the local server I get…

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Catch 22? Blocked by CORS policy: Same server, internal/external IP, no SSL
My apologies if this is a duplicate. I can find a million results about CORS policy issues, but not about this specific one:
I developed a simple "speed test" site for my users (wfh employees of my company) to access. It tests speeds across the…

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ASP.NET Core 7 Chrome error "Ensure private network requests are only made to resources that allow them"
I have an ASP.NET Core 7 MVC application running on intranet that uses Windows authentication.
Recently I made some updates and included model validation for all models as part of securing application.
After the updates I am getting a warning in…

ANTHONY MULLEN
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Calling Rest API from Fetch - not working from "public" page request
I've come across a unique issue that I was wondering if someone can point me in the right direction for some online help.
I have a local IIS Server that I host websites on and this is the issue:
My React HTTPS website ("Website A") make a fetch call…