Laravel angularjs Request::ajax() always false

Question

I\'m building application with angularjs and laravel 4. Everything is fine but I need now to allow only XHR requests.

This is what I have at the beginning of my con

Answer 1

If you'd rather not modify the front-end angular application (or can't), and would rather modify your Laravel code to differentiate between Angular JS AJAX requests vs. other requests, you can also use Request::wantsJson():

if(Request::wantsJson()) {
    // Client wants JSON returned 
} else {
    // Client does not want JSON returned
}

The wantsJson method relies on the standard Accepts HTTP header (rather than the non-standard X-Requested-With header) for the presence of application/json. As long as Angular JS leaves that in by default and you don't remove it on purpose, this method should be reliable.