changing default Content-Type headers

[Vojta Jína]

Hey guys,

we are considering changing default headers for post/put
(Content-Type) from just "application/json" to
"application/json;charset=utf-8".

Could you please double check, that it won't break your apps ?
Especially these apps built with common frameworks like Rails, Django,
etc...

To test it, add this code into your angular app:

someModuleUsedInYourApp.config(function($httpProvider) {
$httpProvider.defaults.headers.put['Content-Type'] =
'application/json;charset=utf-8';
$httpProvider.defaults.headers.post['Content-Type'] =
'application/json;charset=utf-8';
});


Thanks for help,

V.

[Eric Jain]

On May 16, 3:10 pm, Vojta Jína <vojta.j...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Could you please double check, that it won't break your apps ?
> Especially these apps built with common frameworks like Rails, Django,
> etc...

Just tested this with Play (2.0.1), doesn't seem to cause any
problems.

[Johan]

Tested with ColdFusion 9 and Railo 3 = no problems.

[Marcello Nuccio]

Tested with CouchDB 1.2.
No problems.

[Vojta Jína]

Thank you guys, I'm gonna merge this change.

V.

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[felipe...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I'm having problems precisely because of that.

I need to consume an external api that, for some reason, only works if I set the Content-Type header to 'application/xml'. Using 'application/xml; charset=UTF-8' fails.

I already tried to explicitly set this header for the value I want, but I still get this error. This is the example request I'm running on Firefox:

$http({

            url: 'http://api.finder.healthcare.gov/v1.1',

            method: 'POST',

            headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/xml' },

            data: '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<PrivateOptionsAPIRequest>
  <CountiesForPostalCodeRequest>
      <ZipCode>20110</ZipCode>
  </CountiesForPostalCodeRequest>
</PrivateOptionsAPIRequest>'

        }) 

I'm not arguing whether this is the best default or not, but what I would expect is that explicitly setting the header the way I'm doing would override this default.

Is there something I can do about it?

[felipe...@gmail.com]

As I'm making more tests, I see this is not an angular issue, it happens the same using jquery or using "manual" ajax. 

Even if I set the content-type header without defining any particular charset, 'utf-8' appears as default.

It seems to be a setting forced by the browser, and too bad that the API I'm trying to use doesn't handle that case.