Azure Storage Emulator 403 Forbidden - azure

Question

Via Nuget, I upgraded WindowsAzure.Storage to 8.1.1.
I then downloaded the AzureStorageEmulator 5.1.0.0 client.
My connection string:
UseDevelopmentStorage=true;
I've made no code changes since previously when it was apparently working fine. I know get the exception:
Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.StorageException: The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden. ---> System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Core.Executor.Executor.ExecuteSync[T](RESTCommand`1 cmd, IRetryPolicy policy, OperationContext operationContext) in c:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\release_dotnet_master\Lib\ClassLibraryCommon\Core\Executor\Executor.cs:line 677
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Core.Executor.Executor.ExecuteSync[T](RESTCommand`1 cmd, IRetryPolicy policy, OperationContext operationContext) in c:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\release_dotnet_master\Lib\ClassLibraryCommon\Core\Executor\Executor.cs:line 604
at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Blob.CloudBlobContainer.CreateIfNotExists(BlobContainerPublicAccessType accessType, BlobRequestOptions requestOptions, OperationContext operationContext) in c:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\release_dotnet_master\Lib\ClassLibraryCommon\Blob\CloudBlobContainer.cs:line 233
at C3.Code.Controls.Application.Storage.Blob.Blob.GetContainer(String containerName) in C:\Dropbox\Dropbox (Scirra Ltd)\Tom\C3 Website\C3Alpha2\Code\Controls\Application\Storage\Blob\Blob.cs:line 112
Request Information
RequestID:621bc19f-eb6a-4a98-b19e-f5b01ac22c26
RequestDate:Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:17:34 GMT
StatusMessage:Server failed to authenticate the request. Make sure the value of Authorization header is formed correctly including the signature.
ErrorCode:AuthenticationFailed
ErrorMessage:Server failed to authenticate the request. Make sure the value of Authorization header is formed correctly including the signature.
RequestId:621bc19f-eb6a-4a98-b19e-f5b01ac22c26
Time:2017-04-27T16:17:34.5166522Z
When I call
var blobClient = GetClient();
var container = blobClient.GetContainerReference(containerName);
container.CreateIfNotExists(BlobContainerPublicAccessType.Blob);
I saw that system time can impact this, so I checked:
Server DateTime.UtcNow = 27/04/2017 16:17:34
Exception RequestDate = Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:17:34 GMT
Any ideas why I'm seeing this error after updating the client and the nuget package?
Edit: GetClient() Code:
private static CloudBlobClient GetClient()
{
var account = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(Settings.Deployment.AzureConnectionString);
return account.CreateCloudBlobClient();
}
Edit: BaseUri
Base URI is:
http://127.0.0.1:10000/devstoreaccount1
Visit this I get:
<Error>
<Code>InvalidQueryParameterValue</Code>
<Message>
Value for one of the query parameters specified in the request URI is invalid. RequestId:9cc906b0-eec6-44b2-bb3d-f77020af4a4c Time:2017-04-27T16:43:16.8538679Z
</Message>
<QueryParameterName>comp</QueryParameterName>
<QueryParameterValue/>
<Reason/>
</Error>
During storage emulator init, it shows it's installed it to:
(localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB as AzureStorageEmulatorDb51
Visiting: http://127.0.0.1:10000/azurestorageemulatordb51
Shows:
<Error>
<Code>OutOfRangeInput</Code>
<Message>
One of the request inputs is out of range. RequestId:dab5e6c1-bc4a-4c65-a4d9-6d44634cb36a Time:2017-04-27T16:47:20.3093597Z
</Message>
</Error>

Answer 1

I had the same problem and also tried downgrading WindowsAzure.Storage without success. After a long day of trying to disable everyting I discovered that removing this line from startup.cs fixed the problem:
services.AddApplicationInsightsTelemetry(configuration);
I don't know why these are related and why ApplicationInsights causes problems for Azure storage. I have tried using both version 2.1.0-beta2 and 2.0.0 of Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.AspNetCore and both cause the 403 error.

Answer 2

You can resolve this issue for Application Insights version 2.4.0 by modifying the ApplicationInsights.config file and adding the localhost in to the ExcludeComponentCorrelationHttpHeadersOnDomains section thus:
<ExcludeComponentCorrelationHttpHeadersOnDomains>
<Add>localhost</Add>
<Add>127.0.0.1</Add>
<Add>core.windows.net</Add>
<Add>core.chinacloudapi.cn</Add>
<Add>core.cloudapi.de</Add>
<Add>core.usgovcloudapi.net</Add>
</ExcludeComponentCorrelationHttpHeadersOnDomains>

Answer 3

Upgrading Application Insights from version 2.4 to 2.4.1 solved this issue.
Note: when I chose to add AI to my project (using wizard), version 2.4 was added. Surprisingly, the version added was not the latest AI version. I had to go to NuGet and to manually upgrade to latest version.

Answer 4

I've had the same problem, could not find any solution to fix that. It really seems to be connected to ApplicationInsights - direct call to the local emulator from a clean console application works fine, calling the emulator from a web project with ApplicationInsights returns 403.
You can use another storage emulator or use a real Azure Blob Storage.

Answer 5

We had the same issue after installing the Application Insights package into our business rules project.
We have an N-tier solution with asp.net core, which has a different version of application insights.
It turns out we installed the non asp.net core package into the business rules, which then produced the Forbidden 403 error when accessing Queue Client.
We removed the non asp.net core application insights, installed the application insights core into the business rules project and all worked ok.

Answer 6

For those who don't see
services.AddApplicationInsightsTelemetry(configuration);
in their Startup.cs file, the ApplicationInsight configuration might be done in Program.cs, like so:
var host = new WebHostBuilder()
.UseKestrel()
.UseContentRoot(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory())
.UseIISIntegration()
.UseStartup<Startup>()
.UseApplicationInsights() /* HERE */
.Build();