Ajax Call 400 Bad Request error with POST request but not with GET request

I created a Vanilla JS Ajax handler as follows:

var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
    alert(this.responseText);
    }
};

xhttp.open("POST", ajaxurl, true);
xhttp.send("action=lalala");
}

And put this into the theme functions.php file:

add_action('wp_ajax_lalala', 'lalala_ajax_test');

function lalala_ajax_test(){
    $reponse = array('test');
    header("Content-Type: application/json");
    echo json_encode($response);
    exit();
}

And I am getting this in the browser console:

POST https://example.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php 400 (Bad Request)

When I change the request to GET, as follows:

xhttp.open("GET", '/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=lalala', true);
xhttp.send();

It works like a summer sunshine.

So, the error must be related with how the action parameter is passed when doing the request in POST mode.

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Method 1

Well this is very probably going to help someone else sometime so here it goes:

Not setting the request to application/x-www-form-urlencoded makes the POST body behave like a string. So PHP does not recognize $_POST variables. To make that happen we need:

xhttp.setRequestHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');

So the whole thing goes like:

xhttp.open("POST", ajaxurl, true);
xhttp.setRequestHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
xhttp.send("action=lalala");

And then it behaves as expected.

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