ActionController::UnknownHttpMethod: CONNECT - ruby-on-rails

I get the above error message in my log file sometimes, originates from actionpack-x.y.z/action_controller/request.rb.
What should I do in order to prevent a route on anything other than HTTP methods like get, put, delete ?

HTTP CONNECT requests are generally coming from proxy server or crawlers.
We can tackle the above issue by adding a filter in web server, so that those requests are denied. So it is more about tuning the web server than doing in the ruby application.
Example: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=461915

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How can I prevent Electron's Chromium from forcing HTTPS on fetch requests?

From the Electron renderer, I am accessing a local GraphQL endpoint served by a Django instance on my computer, which I'd like to do over HTTP, not HTTPS. But Electron's Chromium seems to intercept my fetch request and preemptively return a 307 redirect.
So if my fetch request is POST to http://local.myapp.com:3000/v1/graphql, then Chromium returns a 307 and forces a redirect to https://local.myapp.com:3000/v1/graphql, which fails because my server is listening on port 3000 and for my use case I can't do a local cert for local.myapp.com.
Theoretically the first insecure request should be hitting an nginx docker container listening on port 3000 without any SSL requirement. And nginx is proxying the request to a Hasura container. But I'm not even seeing the requests in the nginx access logs, so I'm pretty sure the request is being intercepted by Chromium.
I believe this StackOverflow comment summarizes well why this is happening: https://stackoverflow.com/a/34213531
Although I don't recall ever returning a Strict-Transport-Security header from my GraphQL endpoint or Django server.
I have tried the following code without success to turn off this Chromium behavior within my Electron app:
import { app, } from 'electron'
app.commandLine.appendSwitch('ignore-certificate-errors',)
app.commandLine.appendSwitch('allow-insecure-localhost', )
app.commandLine.appendSwitch('ignore-urlfetcher-cert-requests', )
app.commandLine.appendSwitch('allow-running-insecure-content', )
I have also tried setting the fetch options to include {redirect: 'manual'} and {redirect: 'error'}. I can prevent the redirect but that doesn't do me any good because I need to make a successful request to the endpoint to get my data.
I tried replacing the native fetch with electron-fetch (link) and cross-fetch (link) but there seems to be no change in behavior when I swap either of those out.
Edit: Also, making the request to my GraphQL outside of Electron with the exact same header and body info works fine (via Insomnia).
So I have a couple of questions:
Is there a way to programmatically view/clear the list of HSTS domains that is being used by Chromium within Electron?
Is there a better way to accomplish what I'm trying to do?
I think the issue might be from the server, most servers don't allow HTTP in any possible way, they'll drop the data transfer and redirect you to HTTPS and there's a clear reason why they would do that.
Imagine you have an app that connects through HTTPS to send your API in return for some data, if someone just changed the https:// to http:// that'd mean the data will be sent un-encrypted and no matter what you do with your API key, it'll be exposed, that's why the servers don't ever allow any HTTP request, they don't accept even a single bit of data.
I could think of two solutions.
Chromium is not the reason for the redirect, our Django instance might be configured as production or with HTTPS listeners.
Nginx might be the one who's doing the redirecting (having a little bit of SSL def on the configuration)
Last but not least, just generate a cert with OpenSSL (on host http://local.myapp.com:3000/) note: include the port and use that on your Django instance. You can trust the certificate so that it could work everywhere on your computer.

how to correct an error on angular Failed to load http://localhost/api/notification/create.php: Response for preflight does not have HTTP ok status

When I send the data to PHP, the browser responds with an error:
Failed to load http://localhost/api/notification/create.php: Response for preflight does not have HTTP ok status.
Here is my code to send the data
This looks like a problem with your CORS implementation. Specifically, you seem to be missing the Http method "options".
You can resolve this by either by:
Implementing CORS correctly in your PHP code. You should prefer this way if your production setup requires you to have the PHP code running on a different domain
or by using the Angular CLI Proxy. You should prefer this way if you only need the different domains (e.g. localhost:4200 for angular and localhost(:80) for PHP)

Can a web server prevent pages it serves from installing service workers?

Suppose there is a web server that hosts arbitrary user-controlled content under some paths - public IPFS gateways are the example that got me thinking about this. Is it possible for that server to prevent pages that it serves from installing service workers on clients (and thus spoofing content for non-user-controlled paths)?
There's some helpful info in the service worker specification:
An HTTP request to fetch a service worker's script resource will
include the following header:
Service-Worker Indicates this request is a service worker's script
resource request.
Note: This header helps administrators log the requests and detect
threats.
If you'd like to make sure that your web server doesn't allow any service worker registrations, one approach would be to check for the Service-Worker header on incoming requests and have your web server return an appropriate HTTP error response (anything 4xx or 5xx would work—maybe 403 or 412?) whenever you detect that.

How to specify GraphQL server location in Relay?

I have successfully set everything up but unfortunately my GraphQL endpoint is not at the same location as the website that serves the client side.
I know this because in the error console of the browser it says :
http://localhost:3000/graphql Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
three times then give up.
The page that I am using Relay is indeed at http://localhost:3000/ but my GraphQL endpoint is at http://localhost:5000/graphql. Looks like it uses the current URL then automatically append /graphql to it. How can I instruct Relay to get data from other place?
Ok, I found it. (https://facebook.github.io/relay/docs/guides-network-layer.html)
Relay.injectNetworkLayer(
new Relay.DefaultNetworkLayer('http://example.com/graphql')
);
And just in case you are running this on localhost it is still subjected to CORS because it is on different port. In my case I am using an Express server for GraphQL endpoint so I used cors middleware to whitelist my other page.

sap.ui.model.odata.ODataModel returns 501 error on serivces.odata.org

I am trying to create an OData model in SAP UI5 this way:
new sap.ui.model.odata.ODataModel("http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/");
but I am getting a 501 not implemented error!
could you please check what's wrong?
Thanks
As far as I can see it, the service is not really CORS-enabled. I have the same problem with my own examples here, as soon as I am not using some kind of proxy, I get this error.
The reason behind it is that when you send a complex request to the service, you'll autmatically have a so-called preflight request sent by your browser (before the actual GET) which is not a GET-Request, but an HTTP OPTIONS request.
All the odata.org sample services return a 501 error at the moment for such requests.
You can e.g. use the simpleProxyServlet which is shipped with UI5, or of course any other proxy which would solve this.
You are getting this error as your browser will refuse this request due to same Origin Policy. Here is what you should do:
Deploy the app on the same server or domain as the service that you want to call, so that both resources are in the same origin (if possible)
Disable the same-origin policy in the browser for local testing. Run Chrome by running Chrome with the following command:
[your-path-to-chrome-installation-dir]\chrome.exe
--disable-web-security --user-data-dir. Make sure that all instances of Chrome are closed before you run the command. This allows all web
sites to break out of the same-origin policy and connect to the
remote service directly.
-> Don't do this in your productive app as it imposes a security risk.
Using a proxy
The following documentation should help you understand this more and implement:
Conncting with oData Service
Request failing due to Same-Origin Policy sharing(CORS)
Please use "proxy/http/services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc", I think it's solve your problem!

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