It will depend if the backend can receive a JSON format. In my case, I am working with the Drupal 8 Module simple Oauth. and the The format for OAuth 2.0 Bearer tokens is actually described in a separate spec, [RFC 6750][1]. More concrete [here][2] > The entity-body follows the encoding requirements of the > "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" content-type as defined by HTML > 4.01 [W3C.REC-html401-19991224]. So, In my particular case, I will try to send a form-data from angular. [1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6750 [2]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6750#page-4