Request header field Access-Control-Allow-Headers is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Headers

Question

I\'m trying to send files to my server with a post request, but when it sends it causes the error:

Request header field Content-Type is not allowed by

Answer 1

I had the same problem. In the jQuery documentation I found:

For cross-domain requests, setting the content type to anything other than application/x-www-form-urlencoded, multipart/form-data, or text/plain will trigger the browser to send a preflight OPTIONS request to the server.

So though the server allows cross origin request but does not allow Access-Control-Allow-Headers , it will throw errors. By default angular content type is application/json, which is trying to send a OPTION request. Try to overwrite angular default header or allow Access-Control-Allow-Headers in server end. Here is an angular sample:

$http.post(url, data, {
    headers : {
        'Content-Type' : 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8'
    }
});