Requests sent by $auth send parameters as text/plain

[Tresky]

I just began using this package yesterday and I can't seem to get my login requests to be received correctly. I am using Angular 1.6 on the front-end with an ExpressJS backend.

The code I'm sending the request with:

$auth.submitLogin(vm.loginCreds)
        .then((response) => {
          $log.log('Success', response)
        }, (response) => {
          $log.log('Failure', response)
        })

Here is the request that is sent as well as the response:

The thing that I notice is that the parameters are there, but the Content-Type is text/plain. I would expect a normal $http request to be sent using application/json.

To add to this, whenever the request gets to my server, the parameters are non-existent. I am using a top-level middleware in Express to print out all requests that come through and the body of the request that comes in has: req.body == {}. I think this is because the server is meant to accept JSON parameters, but the requests are leaving the browser in plain text, however I am not certain that this is the issue.

Any thoughts on this would be much appreciated.

All the best,
Tresky