removed rate limiter, added cors support in case of protocol switching

package-lock.json

@@ -2313,6 +2313,15 @@
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+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/cors/-/cors-2.8.5.tgz",
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+      "requires": {
+        "object-assign": "^4",
+        "vary": "^1"
+      }
+    },
     "create-ecdh": {
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       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/create-ecdh/-/create-ecdh-4.0.3.tgz",
@@ -3844,9 +3853,9 @@
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       "dev": true
     },
     "loose-envify": {

package.json

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
     "cl-editor": "^2.0.0",
     "compression": "^1.7.1",
     "cookie-parser": "^1.4.5",
+    "cors": "^2.8.5",
     "dotenv": "^8.2.0",
     "express": "^4.17.1",
     "express-fileupload": "^1.1.6",

src/server.js

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import sessionFileStore from 'session-file-store';
 import { RateLimiterMemory } from 'rate-limiter-flexible';
 import fileUpload from 'express-fileupload';
 import fs from 'fs';
+import cors from 'cors';
 import helmet from 'helmet';
 import crypto from 'crypto';
 import Article from './models/article.js';
@@ -108,6 +109,7 @@ const isAuthor = function(req, res, next) {
 
 express()
     .use(helmet())
+    .use(cors())
     .use(bodyParser.json())
     .use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }))
     .use(fileUpload({
@@ -178,6 +180,7 @@ express()
                 }));
                 return false;
             }
+            /*
             try {
                 await registerRateLimiter.consume();
             } catch (err) {
@@ -189,6 +192,7 @@ express()
                 }));
                 return false;
             }
+            */
             try {
                 const user = await User.findOne({ username: req.body.username });
                 if (user) {
@@ -222,7 +226,7 @@ express()
     )
 
     .post('/cms/login',
-        rateLimiterMiddleware(loginAttemptRateLimiter),
+        // rateLimiterMiddleware(loginAttemptRateLimiter),
         passport.authenticate('local', { failWithError: true }),
         function(req, res, next) {
             // handle success