I have been searching far and wide for a solution to this problem.
I have an AngularJS web app with a Laravel 4 backend implementation as follows:
http://app.mydomain.io/ = AngularJS web app
http://api.mydomain.io/ = Laravel Back-end
Within the routes.php file in Laravel I have the following PHP code to set the Access-Control headers:
header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://app.mydomain.io');
header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST, GET, OPTIONS, PUT, DELETE');
I also have a route set-up for a login request as follows:
Route::post('/login', function()
{
$email = Input::get('email');
$password = Input::get('password');
if (Auth::attempt(array('email' => $email, 'password' => $password)))
{
return Success!;
} else {
return Fail!;
}
});
In AngularJS I have a AuthService which looks like below:
app.factory('AuthService', ['$resource', '$q', '$cookieStore', function($resource, $q, $cookieStore) {
var user = null;
var Service = $resource('//api.mydomain.io/login/', {}, {});
return {
login: function(email, password) {
var deferred = $q.defer();
Service.save({email: email, password: password}, function(response) {
$cookieStore.put('user', JSON.stringify(response));
deferred.resolve(true);
}, function(error) {
deferred.reject(error);
});
return deferred.promise;
}
};
}]);
When this request is made I get the following:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://api.mydomain.io/login. Invalid HTTP status code 404
If I change the Laravel route and AngularJS service to use GET, everything works as expected. The problem stems from AngularJS .save() making a OPTIONS request instead of POST (I don't fully understand why).
Could anyone help me with the proper and best practice solution?
Thank you!