My angular client is separated from the backend and I have enabled cors on the backend, everything works fine except the fact that my authentication fails because the cookie is not added to requests.
After searching online I found that I should set {withCredentials : true}
on every http request. I managed to do it on a single request and it works, but not on all the requests.
I tried using BrowserXhr How to send "Cookie" in request header for all the requests in Angular2? but it doesn't work and it's also deprecated afaik.
I also tried RequestOptions but it didn't work.
What can I do to set {withCredentials: true} on every http request?
Later Edit:
@Injectable()
export class ConfigInterceptor implements HttpInterceptor {
constructor(private csrfService: CSRFService) {
}
intercept(req: HttpRequest<any>, next: HttpHandler): Observable<HttpEvent<any>> {
let token = this.csrfService.getCSRF() as string;
const credentialsReq = req.clone({withCredentials : true, setHeaders: { "X-XSRF-TOKEN": token } });
return next.handle(credentialsReq);
}
}
You can use an HttpInterceptor
.
@Injectable()
export class CustomInterceptor implements HttpInterceptor {
constructor() {
}
intercept(request: HttpRequest<any>, next: HttpHandler): Observable<HttpEvent<any>> {
request = request.clone({
withCredentials: true
});
return next.handle(request);
}
}
Next you have to provide it:
@NgModule({
bootstrap: [AppComponent],
imports: [...],
providers: [
{
provide: HTTP_INTERCEPTORS,
useClass: CustomInterceptor ,
multi: true
}
]
})
export class AppModule {}
Source and full explanation
Another perhaps more simple way is to create your own ApiService. It would use an injected HttpClient
. All XHR requests would use the ApiService instead of HttpClient directly.
Here is an example implementation:
https://github.com/gothinkster/angular-realworld-example-app/blob/63f5cd879b5e1519abfb8307727c37ff7b890d92/src/app/core/services/api.service.ts
Some of the code that I have modified:
@Injectable()
export class ApiService {
private httpOptions = {
headers: new HttpHeaders({ 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }),
withCredentials: true // to allow cookies to go from "https://localhost:4567" to "http://localhost:5678"
};
constructor(
private http: HttpClient
) { }
private formatErrors(error: any) {
return throwError(error.error);
}
get(path: string, params: HttpParams = new HttpParams()): Observable<any> {
return this.http.get(`${environment.api_url}${path}`, { params })
.pipe(catchError(this.formatErrors));
}
put(path: string, body: Object = {}): Observable<any> {
return this.http.put(
`${environment.api_url}${path}`,
JSON.stringify(body),
this.httpOptions
).pipe(catchError(this.formatErrors));
}
post(path: string, body: Object = {}): Observable<any> {
return this.http.post(
`${environment.api_url}${path}`,
JSON.stringify(body),
this.httpOptions
).pipe(catchError(this.formatErrors));
}