Ionic 3 - Http Get 401 (Unauthorized) - http

Question

I’m calling a service using a token
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 401 (Unauthorized)
Http failure response for http://localhost:65291/api/post: 401 Unauthorized
The same call works in Postman with Headers;
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer token
The function in ionic is
getPosts() {
var header = new HttpHeaders({ "Content-Type": "application/json" });
header.append("Authorization", "Bearer " + this.token);
console.log("Bearer " + this.token);
return new Promise(resolve => {
console.log(this.apiUrl + '/post');
this.http.get(this.apiUrl + '/post', { headers: header}).subscribe((data: Post[]) => {
resolve(data);
}, err => {
console.log(err);
});
});
}
Added a log for the token to be sure that is adding it to the header correctly (the token is fine).
The apiUrl variable has value http://localhost:65291/api.
What is wrong here? Cors is enabled… Postman works ok…
Thanks

Answer 1

I think you definitely have client side problem (since its 401 and also you mention Postman works ok).
I had similar issues when I tried to append headers in the same fashion you did so I would suggest trying this (to eliminate this problem):
getPosts() {
// try forming headers object in one go:
let token = "Bearer "+this.token
let headers = new HttpHeaders({
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Authorization": token
});
// now here I am not sure why you do promise wrapping this way, but then I would suggest:
return this.http.get(this.apiUrl + '/post', { headers: headers })
.toPromise()
.then((data: Post[]) => { // Success
console.log(data);
resolve(data);
}, (err) => {
console.log(err);
});
}
If the problem is still there - please share which version of Angular and Http module you are using?
Also check out this issue here: How to correctly set Http Request Header in Angular 2
And specifically this answer if you are on Angular 4.3+:
How to correctly set Http Request Header in Angular 2

Answer 2

After a while I found the problem,
header.append("Authorization", "Bearer " + this.token); is wrong. It worked using
let headers = new HttpHeaders({"Authorization: " + "Bearer " + this.token})
Setting multiple headers:
this.http
.post('api/items/add', body, {
headers: new HttpHeaders({
'Authorization': 'my-auth-token',
'x-header': 'x-value'
})
}).subscribe()

Answer 3

I had a similar problem, it works on postman and cors enabled but in the app doesn't work, my problem was i have / at the end of the URL in the API security config, and i was making the request without /, i just remove it from request URL,
also you can add /* in security config or put / in your app, the URL must be the same.
(maybe you have solved your issue and it was different issue but this is a possibe solution)