I am developing a website with Java for the backend and Angular for frontend. There is a situation when some external websites may send data to my website using POST form. For instance,
▼ General
Request URL: https://myangularwebsite/
Request Method: POST
...
▼ Request Headers
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Host: myangularwebsite
Origin: https://externalwebsite
Referer: https://externalwebsite/send.form?id=0
...
▼ Form data
ID: 0000000
TIME: 2017.06.04 11:53:58
SIGNATURE: ...geirgmGKFGJWR...
...
Now, I need to capture the form in Angular somehow, send/redirect it to the backend to validate the signature and return the answer back to Angular to proceed working with this website.
I tried posting to my website to test how it might work using Postman, but get Cannot POST /.
I know how to work with GET and URL query parameters in Angular but I think I need to process a POST request based on headers I see with Chrome DevTools 'Network' section when coming from externalwebsite to myangularwebsite.
Should I dedicate a route in the backend and expose it, for example, .../api/external in my backend and tell these websites to use this link instead of directly posting to my Angular website's homepage?
I have already read another question ( How to read form post data in Angular 2 typescript? ) which is somewhat similar but I do not think using PHP is the right way for me as the website I am developing already has an older version written in PHP.