AngularJs $http.post() does not send data

Question

Could anyone tell me why the following statement does not send the post data to the designated url? The url is called but on the server when I print $_POST - I get an empty

Answer 1

I had the same problem with AngularJS and Node.js + Express 4 + Router

Router expects the data from post's request in body. This body was always empty if i followed the example from Angular Docs

Notation 1

$http.post('/someUrl', {msg:'hello word!'})

But if i used it in the data

Notation 2

$http({
       withCredentials: false,
       method: 'post',
       url: yourUrl,
       headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'},
       data: postData
 });

Edit 1:

Otherwise node.js router will expect the data in req.body if used notation 1:

req.body.msg

Which also sends the information as JSON payload. This is better in some cases where you have arrays in your json and x-www-form-urlencoded will give some problems.

it worked. Hope it helps.