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Adding a HTTP header to the Angular HttpClient doesn't send the header, why?

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How do you pass headers in Angular HTTP?

There are two ways by which we can add the headers. One, we add the HTTP Headers while making a request. The second way is to use the HTTP interceptor to intercept all the Requests and add the Headers. In both cases, we use the httpHeaders configuration option provided by angular HttpClient to add the headers.

How do I add a header to an HTTP response?

Select the web site where you want to add the custom HTTP response header. In the web site pane, double-click HTTP Response Headers in the IIS section. In the actions pane, select Add. In the Name box, type the custom HTTP header name.


The instances of the new HttpHeader class are immutable objects. Invoking class methods will return a new instance as result. So basically, you need to do the following:

let headers = new HttpHeaders();
headers = headers.set('Content-Type', 'application/json; charset=utf-8');

or

const headers = new HttpHeaders({'Content-Type':'application/json; charset=utf-8'});

Update: adding multiple headers

let headers = new HttpHeaders();
headers = headers.set('h1', 'v1').set('h2','v2');

or

const headers = new HttpHeaders({'h1':'v1','h2':'v2'});

Update: accept object map for HttpClient headers & params

Since 5.0.0-beta.6 is now possible to skip the creation of a HttpHeaders object an directly pass an object map as argument. So now its possible to do the following:

http.get('someurl',{
   headers: {'header1':'value1','header2':'value2'}
});

To add multiples params or headers you can do the following:

constructor(private _http: HttpClient) {}

//....

const url = `${environment.APP_API}/api/request`;

let headers = new HttpHeaders().set('header1', hvalue1); // create header object
headers = headers.append('header2', hvalue2); // add a new header, creating a new object
headers = headers.append('header3', hvalue3); // add another header

let params = new HttpParams().set('param1', value1); // create params object
params = params.append('param2', value2); // add a new param, creating a new object
params = params.append('param3', value3); // add another param 

return this._http.get<any[]>(url, { headers: headers, params: params })

set http headers like below in your http request

return this.http.get(url, { headers: new HttpHeaders({'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + token})
 });

I struggled with this for a long time. I am using Angular 6 and I found that

let headers = new HttpHeaders();
headers = headers.append('key', 'value');

did not work. But what did work was

let headers = new HttpHeaders().append('key', 'value');

did, which makes sense when you realize they are immutable. So having created a header you can't add to it. I haven't tried it, but I suspect

let headers = new HttpHeaders();
let headers1 = headers.append('key', 'value');

would work too.


I was with Angular 8 and the only thing which worked for me was this:

  getCustomHeaders(): HttpHeaders {
    const headers = new HttpHeaders()
      .set('Content-Type', 'application/json')
      .set('Api-Key', 'xxx');
    return headers;
  }