[rest] http post - how to send Authorization header?

How do you add headers to your http request in Angular2 RC6? I got following code:

login(login: String, password: String): Observable<boolean> {
    console.log(login);
    console.log(password);
    this.cookieService.removeAll();
    let headers = new Headers();
    headers.append("Authorization","Basic YW5ndWxhci13YXJlaG91c2Utc2VydmljZXM6MTIzNDU2");
    this.http.post(AUTHENTICATION_ENDPOINT + "?grant_type=password&scope=trust&username=" + login + "&password=" + password, null, {headers: headers}).subscribe(response => {
      console.log(response);
    });
    //some return
}

The problem is, that angular doesn't add Authorization header. Instead of that, in request I can see following additional headers:

Access-Control-Request-Headers:authorization
Access-Control-Request-Method:POST

and sdch added in Accept-Encoding:

Accept-Encoding:gzip, deflate, sdch

Unfornately there is no Authorization header. How should I add it correctly?

Whole request sent by my code looks as follow:

OPTIONS /oauth/token?grant_type=password&scope=trust&username=asdf&password=asdf HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
Connection: keep-alive
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Access-Control-Request-Method: POST
Origin: http://localhost:3002
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36
Access-Control-Request-Headers: authorization
Accept: */*
Referer: http://localhost:3002/login
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,pl;q=0.6

Here is the detailed answer to the question:

Pass data into the HTTP header from the Angular side (Please note I am using Angular4.0+ in the application).

There is more than one way we can pass data into the headers. The syntax is different but all means the same.

// Option 1 
 const httpOptions = {
   headers: new HttpHeaders({
     'Authorization': 'my-auth-token',
     'ID': emp.UserID,
   })
 };


// Option 2

let httpHeaders = new HttpHeaders();
httpHeaders = httpHeaders.append('Authorization', 'my-auth-token');
httpHeaders = httpHeaders.append('ID', '001');
httpHeaders.set('Content-Type', 'application/json');    

let options = {headers:httpHeaders};


// Option 1
   return this.http.post(this.url + 'testMethod', body,httpOptions)

// Option 2
   return this.http.post(this.url + 'testMethod', body,options)

In the call you can find the field passed as a header as shown in the image below :

Still, if you are facing the issues like.. (You may need to change the backend/WebAPI side)

• Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No ''Access-Control-Allow-Origin'' header is present on the requested resource. Origin ''http://localhost:4200'' is therefore not allowed access

• Response for preflight does not have HTTP ok status.

Find my detailed answer at https://stackoverflow.com/a/52620468/3454221

I had the same issue. This is my solution using angular documentation and firebase Token:

getService()  {

const accessToken=this.afAuth.auth.currentUser.getToken().then(res=>{
  const httpOptions = {
    headers: new HttpHeaders({
      'Content-Type':  'application/json',
      'Authorization': res
    })
  };
  return this.http.get('Url',httpOptions)
    .subscribe(res => console.log(res));
}); }}

I believe you need to map the result before you subscribe to it. You configure it like this:

  updateProfileInformation(user: User) {
    var headers = new Headers();
    headers.append('Content-Type', this.constants.jsonContentType);

    var t = localStorage.getItem("accessToken");
    headers.append("Authorization", "Bearer " + t;
    var body = JSON.stringify(user);

    return this.http.post(this.constants.userUrl + "UpdateUser", body, { headers: headers })
      .map((response: Response) => {
        var result = response.json();
        return result;
      })
      .catch(this.handleError)
      .subscribe(
      status => this.statusMessage = status,
      error => this.errorMessage = error,
      () => this.completeUpdateUser()
      );
  }

you need RequestOptions

 let headers = new Headers({'Content-Type': 'application/json'});  
 headers.append('Authorization','Bearer ')
 let options = new RequestOptions({headers: headers});
 return this.http.post(APIname,body,options)
  .map(this.extractData)
  .catch(this.handleError);

for more check this link

If you are like me, and starring at your angular/ionic typescript, which looks like..

  getPdf(endpoint: string): Observable<Blob> {
    let url = this.url + '/' + endpoint;
    let token = this.msal.accessToken;
    console.log(token);
    return this.http.post<Blob>(url, {
      headers: new HttpHeaders(
        {
          'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': 'https://localhost:5100',
          'Access-Control-Allow-Methods': 'POST',
          'Content-Type': 'application/pdf',
          'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + token,
          'Accept': '*/*',
        }),
        //responseType: ResponseContentType.Blob,
      });
  }

And while you are setting options but can't seem to figure why they aren't anywhere..

Well.. if you were like me and started this post from a copy/paste of a get, then...

Change to:

  getPdf(endpoint: string): Observable<Blob> {
    let url = this.url + '/' + endpoint;
    let token = this.msal.accessToken;
    console.log(token);
    return this.http.post<Blob>(url, null, { //  <-----  notice the null  *****
      headers: new HttpHeaders(
        {
          'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + token,
          'Accept': '*/*',
        }),
        //responseType: ResponseContentType.Blob,
      });
  }