Angular2 - Http POST request parameters

I think that the body isn't correct for an application/x-www-form-urlencoded content type. You could try to use this:

var body = 'username=myusername&password=mypassword';

Hope it helps you, Thierry

so just to make it a complete answer:

login(username, password) {
        var headers = new Headers();
        headers.append('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
        let urlSearchParams = new URLSearchParams();
        urlSearchParams.append('username', username);
        urlSearchParams.append('password', password);
        let body = urlSearchParams.toString()
        return this.http.post('http://localHost:3000/users/login', body, {headers:headers})
            .map((response: Response) => {
                // login successful if there's a jwt token in the response
                console.log(response);
                var body = response.json();
                console.log(body);
                if (body.response){
                    let user = response.json();
                    if (user && user.token) {
                        // store user details and jwt token in local storage to keep user logged in between page refreshes
                        localStorage.setItem('currentUser', JSON.stringify(user)); 
                    }
                }
                else{
                    return body;
                }
            });
    }

In later versions of Angular2 there is no need of manually setting Content-Type header and encoding the body if you pass an object of the right type as body.

You simply can do this

import { URLSearchParams } from "@angular/http"


testRequest() {
  let data = new URLSearchParams();
  data.append('username', username);
  data.append('password', password);

  this.http
    .post('/api', data)
      .subscribe(data => {
            alert('ok');
      }, error => {
          console.log(error.json());
      });
}

This way angular will encode the body for you and will set the correct Content-Type header.

P.S. Do not forget to import URLSearchParams from @angular/http or it will not work.

Update for Angualar 4.3+

Now we can use HttpClient instead of Http

Guide is here

Sample code

const myheader = new HttpHeaders().set('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
let body = new HttpParams();
body = body.set('username', USERNAME);
body = body.set('password', PASSWORD);
http
  .post('/api', body, {
    headers: myheader),
  })
  .subscribe();

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Deprecated

Or you can do like this:

let urlSearchParams = new URLSearchParams();
urlSearchParams.append('username', username);
urlSearchParams.append('password', password);
let body = urlSearchParams.toString()

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Update Oct/2017

From angular4+, we don't need headers, or .toString() stuffs. Instead, you can do like below example

import { URLSearchParams } from '@angular/http';

POST/PUT method

let urlSearchParams = new URLSearchParams();
urlSearchParams.append('username', username);
urlSearchParams.append('password', password);
this.http.post('/api', urlSearchParams).subscribe(
      data => {
        alert('ok');
      },
      error => {
        console.log(JSON.stringify(error.json()));
      }
    )

GET/DELETE method

    let urlSearchParams = new URLSearchParams();
    urlSearchParams.append('username', username);
    urlSearchParams.append('password', password);
    this.http.get('/api', { search: urlSearchParams }).subscribe(
      data => {
        alert('ok');
      },
      error => {
        console.log(JSON.stringify(error.json()));
      }
    )

For JSON application/json Content-Type

this.http.post('/api',
      JSON.stringify({
        username: username,
        password: password,
      })).subscribe(
      data => {
        alert('ok');
      },
      error => {
        console.log(JSON.stringify(error.json()));
      }
      )