Satellizer causes Angular to pre-flight ALL of my rest queries with an OPTIONS request

Question

If all servers responded to an OPTIONS request this would not be a problem, but Satellizer even causes Angular to pre-flight a GET request with Content-Type text/plain. In effect, it breaks half of my other REST queries.

Answer 1

After looking through the code and studying Angualr's httpProvider I realized that Sateliizer is intercepting every single request using httpProvider's interceptors array and adding the following:

var token = localStorage.getItem(tokenName);
if (token && config.httpInterceptor) {
  token = config.authHeader === 'Authorization' ? 'Bearer ' + token : token;
  httpConfig.headers[config.authHeader] = token;
}

So that every single request gets an Authorization header. Since I actually have only ONE request that needs an authorization header I modified the conditional statement:

if (token && config.httpInterceptor && httpConfig.auth===true) {

and then in my $http.get for the single service that actually needs authorization I add:

        var config = {auth: true};
        $http.get(googleUrl, config)