axios download for laravel generated excel files

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We wanted to download the excel file using an authenticated route to have a check of permissions before downloading.

This is the code for my Controller and trying just with a sample one. but I am still having problems with CORS. I have tried applying a CORS Middleware from different sources but still doesn't work.

All of my other routes have CORS Headers applied to them.

I don't have any answers why it is not working. I have tried also applying the headers from the response header parameter as seen on the sample code and yet the response is still not applying the CORS headers

Sample Code:

$data = SimpleExcelWriter::streamDownload('sample.xlsx')
    ->addHeader(['first_name', 'last_name'])
    ->addRow(['John', 'Doe'])
    ->addRow(['Jane', 'Doe']);

return response()->streamDownload(fn () => $data->close(), 'sample.xlsx', [
    'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' => '*',
    'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' => 'POST, GET, OPTIONS, PUT, DELETE',
    'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' => 'true',
    'Access-Control-Max-Age' => '86400',
    'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' => 'Content-Type, Accept, Authorization, X-Requested-With, Application',
]);

Also tried working with just returning the whole SimpleExcelWriter but still having the CORS error:

return SimpleExcelWriter::streamDownload('sample.xlsx')
    ->addHeader(['first_name', 'last_name'])
    ->addRow(['John', 'Doe'])
    ->addRow(['Jane', 'Doe'])
    ->toBrowser();