Azure storage emulator - blob creation gives 403 Forbidden message

Question

I am attempting to use the Azure Storage Emulator to work with blob storage. I just cannot seem to get it to work and have wasted an entire day trying without success. I kee

Answer 1

Just saw this with WindowsAzure.Storage 8.6.0. I followed this issue's comments and the fix that worked for me is to add the following to ExcludeComponentCorrelationHttpHeadersOnDomains in ApplicationInsights.config:

localhost
127.0.0.1

Seems like at some point a regression was introduced that causes AI to modify the headers for requests to the emulator which results in the 403 Forbidden error.