Setting processData to false in jQuery breaks my AJAX request

Question

I\'ve googled for a while now and can only find what processData: false does. I can\'t find anyone who has experienced this same issue.

I\'m passing JSO

Answer 1

Actually, processData by default assumes that data passed is an object and sends it as application/x-www-form-urlencoded.

Summing up everything said above by @lonesomeday and @vsm to send raw JSON (what is different from the form data) you need to:

$.ajax({
    url: 'http://here-i.am/send-me/an/angel', // Determining far end
    data: JSON.stringify({foo: "bar"}), // Obtaining proper JSON string from data object
    processData: false, // Preventing default data parse behavior
    contentType: "application/json" // Setting proper `ContentType` for our data
    ...
});