Angularjs - equal sign in $http post data

Question

I'm using angularjs' $http service to post data to my API. It works great.. until I add and equals sign to the contents of data (JSONRequest in example)

var request = {
    'method': 'POST',
    'url': API_URL + apiActionName,
    'data': JSONRequest,
    'withCredentials': true,
};
$http(request).
success(function(data, status, headers, config) {
    // handle success
}).
error(function(data, status, headers, config) {
    // handle error
}

this works for data contain the following JSONRequest

{
    'text':'this is  some text'
}

however when the data contains this

{
    'text':'this is = some text'
}

the request is escaped and the server cannot do anything with the POST!! It seems to work with all other characters.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

Answer 1

I always use JSON.Stringify() for my POST payloads.