Is there a way to avoid Preflighting with $http?

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I'm using nginx on the remote server, and with no support for the OPTIONS method I've been terribly stuck. Both the server and angular refuse to talk to each other.

I just want to make a simple $http.post() request. Is there a way to configure the service to ONLY send the POST request, and not do any preflighting with OPTIONS?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

This is not something AngularJS does, but something your browser does according to the Cross-Origin Resource Sharing standard. See also this answer on a related issue.

However, if you make it so that the AngularJS application is served from the same domain as your resource (different subdomains will affect cross-origin), then the browser will not send the OPTIONS request as the resource is no longer from a cross-origin server.

Example:

www.example.com requests resource on api.example.com will trigger OPTIONS request
www.example.com requests resource from www.example.com/api will not trigger OPTIONS request

Cross Origin is just unavoidable in my current situation :( Do I have any other options? — Aditya M P, Aug 10 '13 at 13:03

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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If CORS is Unavoidable You could change the header of the request to text/plain and then parse your response manually acording to answers in this link below

How to skip the OPTIONS preflight request in AngularJS

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Is there a way to avoid Preflighting with $http?

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