How can I post data as form data instead of a request payload?

Question

In the code below, the AngularJS $http method calls the URL, and submits the xsrf object as a \"Request Payload\" (as described in the Chrome debugger network t

Answer 1

Complete answer (since angular 1.4). You need to include de dependency $httpParamSerializer

var res = $resource(serverUrl + 'Token', { }, {
                save: { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' } }
            });

            res.save({ }, $httpParamSerializer({ param1: 'sdsd', param2: 'sdsd' }), function (response) {

            }, function (error) { 

            });

Answer 2

You can define the behavior globally:

$http.defaults.headers.post["Content-Type"] = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

So you don't have to redefine it every time:

$http.post("/handle/post", {
    foo: "FOO",
    bar: "BAR"
}).success(function (data, status, headers, config) {
    // TODO
}).error(function (data, status, headers, config) {
    // TODO
});

Answer 3

Just set Content-Type is not enough, url encode form data before send. $http.post(url, jQuery.param(data))

Answer 4

I took a few of the other answers and made something a bit cleaner, put this .config() call on the end of your angular.module in your app.js:

.config(['$httpProvider', function ($httpProvider) {
  // Intercept POST requests, convert to standard form encoding
  $httpProvider.defaults.headers.post["Content-Type"] = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
  $httpProvider.defaults.transformRequest.unshift(function (data, headersGetter) {
    var key, result = [];

    if (typeof data === "string")
      return data;

    for (key in data) {
      if (data.hasOwnProperty(key))
        result.push(encodeURIComponent(key) + "=" + encodeURIComponent(data[key]));
    }
    return result.join("&");
  });
}]);

Answer 5

You can try with below solution

$http({
        method: 'POST',
        url: url-post,
        data: data-post-object-json,
        headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'},
        transformRequest: function(obj) {
            var str = [];
            for (var key in obj) {
                if (obj[key] instanceof Array) {
                    for(var idx in obj[key]){
                        var subObj = obj[key][idx];
                        for(var subKey in subObj){
                            str.push(encodeURIComponent(key) + "[" + idx + "][" + encodeURIComponent(subKey) + "]=" + encodeURIComponent(subObj[subKey]));
                        }
                    }
                }
                else {
                    str.push(encodeURIComponent(key) + "=" + encodeURIComponent(obj[key]));
                }
            }
            return str.join("&");
        }
    }).success(function(response) {
          /* Do something */
        });

Answer 6

I'm currently using the following solution I found in the AngularJS google group.

$http
.post('/echo/json/', 'json=' + encodeURIComponent(angular.toJson(data)), {
    headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8'
    }
}).success(function(data) {
    $scope.data = data;
});

Note that if you're using PHP, you'll need to use something like Symfony 2 HTTP component's Request::createFromGlobals() to read this, as $_POST won't automatically loaded with it.