X-Requested-With header not set in jquery ajaxForm plugin

Question

I\'m using the jQuery ajaxForms plugin to make an ajax submit to my CakePHP app.

Cake\'s RequestHandler detects ajax requests by looking at the \"X-Requested-With\

Answer 1

@Nicky De Maeyer's answer to his own question

Actually you don't need to do this yourself (appending a hidden input field).

AFAIK you can just pass such data to ajaxForms plugin in the options object

$('#myForm1').ajaxForm({data:{"X_REQUESTED_WITH":"XMLHttpRequest"}});

Should automagically (in the hidden iframe file upload case) append such an input to your form on submission