I am not able to add Date in the header, every time I add the date I get the error. Refused to set unsafe header "Date"

This is My code;

 $http({
      method: 'POST',
      url: 'https:......',
      data: message,
      headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
                                'XReference':reference,                                  
                                'Authorization':auth,
                                'Date':unixtimestamp                                 

       }
 })

I am not able to add Date in the header, every time I add the date I get the error. Refused to set unsafe header "Date"

This is My code;

 $http({
      method: 'POST',
      url: 'https:......',
      data: message,
      headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
                                'XReference':reference,                                  
                                'Authorization':auth,
                                'Date':unixtimestamp                                 

       }
 })

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• Since XmlHttpRequest doesn't allow the Date header to be set, could you use a custom header of a different name for your purposes? – adam0101 Commented Mar 16, 2016 at 14:26

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Beneath $http it uses XmlHttpRequest and XmlHttpRequest isn't allowed to set the Date header as per the standard.

Step 5 states:

Terminate these steps if header is a case-insensitive match for one of the following headers...

and Date is included in that list.

It seems like some browsers allow it and others do not.

Try changing "Date" to "Request-Date"

Browsers don't allow you to set the date header in AJAX requests. According to the specification:

Terminate these steps if header is a case-insensitive match for one of the following headers:

• ...
• Date
• ...