AngularJs $http.post not posting in IE

Question

This code:

        close: function (id) {
            var defered = $q.defer();

            $http.post('api/TopicSelection/Close', id).
                success(function (data) {
                    defered.resolve(data);
                }).
                error(function (data, status, headers, config) {
                    defered.reject(data.message);
                });

            return defered.promise;
        },

works perfectly in Chrome. However in IE 9, error callback is called straight away. data, status, headers are empty, and according to Fiddler/IE Network traffic, request is not sent.

What is wrong with it?

Tip

After some investigation it seems that IE 9 & AngularJS do not handle a case when I simply pass id as string in message body. When I changed it to:

$http.post('api/TopicSelection/Close', {id: id})

then the POST is sent with message body:

{"id":4611}

However, I don't want to have an object serialized. I want to have a simple request message body as string:

4611

Answer 1

Issue resolved. id has to be string:

$http.post('api/TopicSelection/Close', id.toString())

Note from Angular's reference:

data – {string|Object} – Data to be sent as the request message data.

The only annoying thing is version without toString was not coherent betweet browsers...