How to skip the OPTIONS preflight request

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I had developed a PhoneGap app which is now being transformed to a mobile website  Everything works smoothly besides one small glitch  I use a certain third party API via a POST request  which works fine in the app  but fails in the mobile website version   After a closer look it seems like AngularJS  I guess the browser actually  is first sending an OPTIONS request  I learned a lot today about CORS  but I can t seem to figure out how to disable it altogether  I do not have access to that API  so changes at that side are impossible   but they have added the domain I am working on to their Access-Control-Allow-Origin header   This is the code I am talking about           var request                     language   fr                   barcodes                                                  barcode   somebarcode                           description   Description goes here                                                                           var config                 headers                      Cache-Control    no-cache                    Content-Type    application json                                    http post  http   somedomain be trackinginfo   request  config  success function data  status                callback undefined  data              error function data  status                var err   new Error  Error message                err status   status              callback err                 How can I prevent the browser  or AngularJS  from sending that OPTIONS request and just skip to the actual POST request  I am using AngularJS 1 2 0   Thanks in advance

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I think best way is check if request is of type  OPTIONS  return 200 from middle ware  It worked for me   express use      req res next    gt         if  req method     OPTIONS             res status 200           res send           else          next

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As what Ray said  you can stop it by modifying content-header like -    http defaults headers post  Content-Type      text plain     For Example -   angular module  myApp   factory  User      resource    http       function  resource  http            http defaults headers post  Content-Type      text plain           return  resource API ENGINE URL  user  userId                     query   method  GET   params  userId  users    isArray true               getLoggedIn  method  GET                          Or directly to a call -  var req      method   POST    url   http   example com    headers        Content-Type    text plain       data    test   test        http req  then function         function            This will not send any pre-flight option request   NOTE  Request should not have any custom header parameter  If request header contains any custom header then browser will make pre-flight request  you cant avoid it

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When performing certain types of cross-domain AJAX requests  modern browsers that support CORS will insert an extra  preflight  request to determine whether they have permission to perform the action  From example query    http get     https   example com api v1 users      userId     params              apiKey    34d1e55e4b02e56a67b0b66                          As a result of this fragment we can see that the address was sent two requests  OPTIONS and GET   The response from the server includes headers confirming the permissibility the query GET  If your server is not configured to process an OPTIONS request properly  client requests will fail  For example   Access-Control-Allow-Credentials  true Access-Control-Allow-Headers  accept  origin  x-requested-with  content-type Access-Control-Allow-Methods  DELETE Access-Control-Allow-Methods  OPTIONS Access-Control-Allow-Methods  PUT Access-Control-Allow-Methods  GET Access-Control-Allow-Methods  POST Access-Control-Allow-Orgin    Access-Control-Max-Age  172800 Allow  PUT Allow  OPTIONS Allow  POST Allow  DELETE Allow  GET

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The preflight is being triggered by your Content-Type of application json   The simplest way to prevent this is to set the Content-Type to be text plain in your case  application x-www-form-urlencoded  amp  multipart form-data Content-Types are also acceptable  but you ll of course need to format your request payload appropriately   If you are still seeing a preflight after making this change  then Angular may be adding an X-header to the request as well   Or you might have headers  Authorization  Cache-Control     that will trigger it  see    https   developer mozilla org en-US docs HTTP Access control CORS Preflighted requests

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setting the content-type to undefined would make javascript pass the header data As it is   and over writing the default angular  httpProvider header configurations  Angular  http Documentation   http  url url method  POST   headers   Content-Type  undefined   then success failure

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Preflight is a web security feature implemented by the browser  For Chrome you can disable all web security by adding the --disable-web-security flag   For example   C  Program Files Google Chrome Application chrome exe  --disable-web-security --user-data-dir  C  newChromeSettingsWithoutSecurity    You can first create a new shortcut of chrome  go to its properties and change the target as above  This should help

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