CORS with Kafka REST Proxy

Landoop’s Kafka Topics UI is an excellent tools to view the topics in a Kafka Cluster in Confluent platform.

It is based on AngularJS. If you just follow the instruction and run it using http_server, you would get the following error:

The issue is with the default CORS settings on Kafka REST proxy. Just update kafka-rest/kafka-rest.properties file by adding CORS permissions.

Now it should be OK running the UI. Here is my screen.