Setting HTTP Headers

The $http service will automatically add certain HTTP headers to all requests. These defaults can be fully configured by accessing the $httpProvider.defaults.headers configuration object, which currently contains this default configuration:

• $httpProvider.defaults.headers.common (headers that are common for all requests):
  • Accept: application/json, text/plain, * / *
• $httpProvider.defaults.headers.post: (header defaults for POST requests)
  • Content-Type: application/json
• $httpProvider.defaults.headers.put (header defaults for PUT requests)
  • Content-Type: application/json

To add or overwrite these defaults, simply add or remove a property from these configuration objects. To add headers for an HTTP method other than POST or PUT, simply add a new object with the lowercased HTTP method name as the key, e.g. `$httpProvider.defaults.headers.get = { 'My-Header' : 'value' }.

The defaults can also be set at runtime via the $http.defaults object in the same fashion. For example:

module.run(function($http) {
$http.defaults.headers.common.Authorization = 'Basic YmVlcDpib29w'
});

In addition, you can supply a headers property in the config object passed when calling $http(config), which overrides the defaults without changing them globally.