django - XSRF headers not being set in AngularJS

Question

I'm developing a DJANGO + AngularJS application, where the angular part is not being served by django.

I set the angular $httpProvider as follows:

myApp = angular.module('myApp', [])

myApp.config(['$httpProvider',
  function(provider){
    provider.defaults.xsrfCookieName = 'csrftoken';
    provider.defaults.xsrfHeaderName = 'X-CSRFToken';
}

Then, before doing any POST, I do a GET which sets the cookie. I can confirm through Chrome that the cookie is set:

set-cookie:csrftoken=hg88ZZFEdLPnwDdN1eiNquA8YzTySdQO; expires=Tue, 19-Aug-2014 12:26:35 GMT; Max-Age=31449600; Path=/

(it's visible in resources/cookies/localhost in the Chrome developer tools)

However when I do a POST, no X-CSRFToken header is being set

this is the POST as recorded by Chrome:

POST /data/activities/search HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:14080
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 2
Accept: application/json, text/plain, */*
Origin: http://localhost:14080
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.95 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Referer: http://localhost:14080/public/html/main.html?codekitCB=398694184.799418
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Cookie: csrftoken=hg88ZZFEdLPnwDdN1eiNquA8YzTySdQO

Why is no header being set? What else should I do to activate this functionality?

(side note: if I manually pass the header in the $http() call, the POST request works fine.. therefore the problem is really the header not being set by AngularJS)

Answer 1

very simple answer: it's only available from version 1.2.0, which is at the moment a release candidate.