Can't load directly from google drive to QIIME 2 View

[BenKaehler]

Dear Forum,

This might be a case of not your problem, but when I tried to directly open a link from google drive in QIIME 2 View it failed with the following error:

TypeError: Cross-origin redirection to https://drive.google.com/file/d/13D6779zZCc4xyzU1fvie31_HK6UhFUIv/view?usp=drive_open denied by Cross-Origin Resource Sharing policy: Origin https://view.qiime2.org is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.

Thanks!

[colinbrislawn (Colin J Brislawn)]

Hello Ben,

Thanks for reporting this. I hope this issue didn’t slip through the cracks.

TypeError: Cross-origin redirection to https://drive.google.com/file/d/13D6779zZCc4xyzU1fvie31_HK6UhFUIv/view?usp=drive_open denied by Cross-Origin Resource Sharing policy: Origin https://view.qiime2.org is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.

I’m not sure I’m getting this error myself, and I can open this link in google drive just fine:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13D6779zZCc4xyzU1fvie31_HK6UhFUIv/view?usp=drive_open
(I hope you are cool with that being public )

What steps can I take to reproduce this error?

Colin

[thermokarst]

Hey @colinbrislawn & @BenKaehler!

This behavior is expected (CORS policy), and is documented on q2view’s “About” page:

https://view.qiime2.org/about#headers

TLDR, CORS is a browser’s security policy against malicious content. As far as Google Drive goes, I am not sure that they support CORS-enabled requests.

[BenKaehler]

Thanks @colinbrislawn and @thermokarst!

No probs. There is the obvious workaround.

Might be worth noting if we ever write a tutorial on how to view qzvs.