How can I post data as form data instead of a request payload?

Question

In the code below, the AngularJS $http method calls the URL, and submits the xsrf object as a \"Request Payload\" (as described in the Chrome debugger network t

Answer 1

If you do not want to use jQuery in the solution you could try this. Solution nabbed from here https://stackoverflow.com/a/1714899/1784301

$http({
    method: 'POST',
    url: url,
    headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'},
    transformRequest: function(obj) {
        var str = [];
        for(var p in obj)
        str.push(encodeURIComponent(p) + "=" + encodeURIComponent(obj[p]));
        return str.join("&");
    },
    data: xsrf
}).success(function () {});