Angular: Custom headers are ignored by $http and $resource. Why?

Question

I\'m trying to access a REST service I don\'t control. First problem is that the service doesn\'t include a Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, which is a problem that, if I und

Answer 1

The following works for me - however, I do that during "runtime" with $http and I am not using $httpProvider during bootstrapping.

function SomeCtrl($http) {

    $http.defaults.transformRequest.push(function (data, headersGetter) {
        headersGetter().Accept = "application/json, text/javascript";
        return data;
    });

}

Edit

Here is a working jsFiddle version. Check the request which is done with Developer Tools/Firebug and see that "application/json, text/javascript" is requested.