If the timeout argument is a promise, abort the request when it is resolved.
Implemented by adding support to $httpBackend service and $httpBackend mock
service.
This api can also be used to explicitly abort requests while keeping the
communication between the deffered and promise unidirectional.
Closes#1159
The default header is now application/json which while not perfect
in all cases is better than the browser default application/xml.
The new headers also makes for better compatibility with Rails 4
When we need more control over http caching, we may want to provide
a custom cache to be used in all http requests by default.
To skip default cache, set {cache: false} in request configuration.
To use other cache, set {cache: cache} as before.
See #2079
encodeURIComponent is too aggressive and doesn't follow http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt
with regards to the character set (pchar) allowed in path segments so we need
this test to make sure that we don't over-encode the params and break stuff
like buzz api which uses @self.
This is has already been fixed in `$resource`. This commit fixes it in a same way
for `$http` as well.
BREAKING CHANGE: $http does follow RFC3986 and does not encode special characters
like `$@,:` in params. If your application needs to encode these characters, encode
them manually, before sending the request.
Add 'xsrfCookieName' and 'xsrfHeaderName' property to $httpProvider.defaults and
http config object, which give the name of the cookie the XSRF token is found
in, and the name of the header it is sent in, respectively.
This allows interop with servers with built-in XSRF support that use different
names.
The defaults match the current hard-coded values of 'XSRF-TOKEN' and
'X-XSRF-TOKEN'.
This is needed to prevent CORS preflight checks. The XSFR token
is quite useless for CORS requests anyway.
BREAKING CHANGE: X-XSFR-TOKEN is no longer send for cross domain
requests. This shouldn't affect any known production service.
Closes#1096
X-Requested-With header is rarely used in practice and by using
it all the time we are triggering preflight checks for crossdomain
requests.
We could try detecting if we are doing CORS requests or not, but
it doesn't look like it's worth the trouble.
BREAKING CHANGE: X-Requested-With header is not set by $http service
any more. If anyone actually uses this header it's quite easy to add
it back via:
```
myAppModule.config(['$httpProvider', function($httpProvider) {
$httpProvider.defaults.headers.common["X-Requested-With"] = 'XMLHttpRequest';
}]);
```
Closes#1004
Today, calling e.g. $http(url, { params: { a: [1,2,3] } }) results in a query
string like "?a=%5B1%2C2%2C3%5D" which is undesirable. This commit enhances
buildURL to createa query string like "?a=1&a=2&a=3".
BREAKING CHANGE: if the server relied on the buggy behavior then either the
backend should be fixed or a simple serialization of the array should be done
on the client before calling the $http service.
Closes#1363
Often it is impossible to set the http defaults during the config phase,
because the config info is not available at this time.
A good example is authentication - often the app needs to bootstrap,
allow user to enter credentials and only then it gains access to
session token which then should be sent to the server with every request.
Without having the ability to set the defaults at runtime, the developer
either has to resort to hacks, or has to set the session token header
with every request made by the app.
