NetworkError: 405 Method Not Allowed AngularJS REST - angularjs

Question

In AngularJS, I had the following function, which worked fine:
$http.get( "fruits.json" ).success( $scope.handleLoaded );
Now I would like to change this from a file to a url (that returns json using some sweet Laravel 4):
$http.get( "http://localhost/fruitapp/fruits").success( $scope.handleLoaded );
The error I get is:
"NetworkError: 405 Method Not Allowed - http://localhost/fruitapp/fruits"
What's the problem? Is it because fruit.json was "local" and localhost is not?

Answer 1

From w3:
10.4.6 405 Method Not Allowed
The method specified in the Request-Line is not allowed for the resource
identified by the Request-URI. The response MUST include an Allow header
containing a list of valid methods for the requested resource.
It means the for the URL: http://localhost/fruitapp/fruits The server is responding that the GET method isn't allowed. Is it a POST or PUT?

Answer 2

The angular js version you are using would be <= 1.2.9.
If Yes, try this.
return $http({
url: 'http://localhost/fruitapp/fruits',
method: "GET",
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Accept': 'application/json'
}
});

Answer 3

I had a similar issue with my SpringBoot project, I was getting the same error in the browser console but I saw a different error message when I looked at the back-end log, It was throwing this error: "org.springframework.web.HttpRequestMethodNotSupportedException, message=Request method 'DELETE' not supported " It turned out that I was missing the {id} parameter in the back-end controller:
** Wrong code :**
#RequestMapping(value="books",method=RequestMethod.DELETE)
public Book delete(#PathVariable long id){
Book deletedBook = bookRepository.findOne(id);
bookRepository.delete(id);
return deletedBook;
}
** Correct code :**
#RequestMapping(value="books/{id}",method=RequestMethod.DELETE)
public Book delete(#PathVariable long id){
Book deletedBook = bookRepository.findOne(id);
bookRepository.delete(id);
return deletedBook;
}

Answer 4

For me, it was the server not being configured for CORS.
Here is how I did it on Azure: CORS enabling on Azure
I hope something similar works with your server, too.
I also found a proposal how to configure CORS on the web.config, but no guarantee: configure CORS in the web.config. In general, there is a preflight request to your server, and if you did a cross-origin request (that is from another url than your server has), you need to allow all origins on your server (Access-Control-Allow-Origin *).