From afef96077ce4b89a9ac8727af6b437b9383d474a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Hoffman <johnh@qualtrics.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 17:34:36 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] stop coercing falsy values to null before xhr.send()

---
 src/ng/httpBackend.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/ng/httpBackend.js b/src/ng/httpBackend.js
index 4eb872cd5f11..8bfd85516807 100644
--- a/src/ng/httpBackend.js
+++ b/src/ng/httpBackend.js
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ function createHttpBackend($browser, createXhr, $browserDefer, callbacks, rawDoc
         }
       }
 
-      xhr.send(post || null);
+      xhr.send(post);
     }
 
     if (timeout > 0) {

From b9c0de3f9a14dcee458a9644c03ba00f2061f177 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Hoffman <johnh@qualtrics.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 09:40:53 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] coercing undefined to null

---
 src/ng/httpBackend.js      | 2 +-
 test/ng/httpBackendSpec.js | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/ng/httpBackend.js b/src/ng/httpBackend.js
index 8bfd85516807..e3ed554c2aa6 100644
--- a/src/ng/httpBackend.js
+++ b/src/ng/httpBackend.js
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ function createHttpBackend($browser, createXhr, $browserDefer, callbacks, rawDoc
         }
       }
 
-      xhr.send(post);
+      xhr.send(isDefined(post) ? post : null);
     }
 
     if (timeout > 0) {
diff --git a/test/ng/httpBackendSpec.js b/test/ng/httpBackendSpec.js
index 12ceed5beb01..bcec2db3c0ab 100644
--- a/test/ng/httpBackendSpec.js
+++ b/test/ng/httpBackendSpec.js
@@ -50,6 +50,13 @@ describe('$httpBackend', function() {
     expect(xhr.$$data).toBe(null);
   });
 
+  it('should pass false to send if false body is set', function() {
+    $backend('GET', '/some-url', false, noop);
+    xhr = MockXhr.$$lastInstance;
+
+    expect(xhr.$$data).toBe(false);
+  });
+
   it('should call completion function with xhr.statusText if present', function() {
     callback.andCallFake(function(status, response, headers, statusText) {
       expect(statusText).toBe('OK');

From ffd8972e868658920f37e7e5e69fdfb545340913 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Hoffman <johnh@qualtrics.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:02:51 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] only coding to the special case where post === false now

---
 src/ng/httpBackend.js | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/ng/httpBackend.js b/src/ng/httpBackend.js
index e3ed554c2aa6..42427782ce24 100644
--- a/src/ng/httpBackend.js
+++ b/src/ng/httpBackend.js
@@ -109,7 +109,12 @@ function createHttpBackend($browser, createXhr, $browserDefer, callbacks, rawDoc
         }
       }
 
-      xhr.send(isDefined(post) ? post : null);
+      if (post === false) {
+        xhr.send(post);
+      }
+      else {
+        xhr.send(post || null);
+      }
     }
 
     if (timeout > 0) {