adding api username and password to a HTTP.Get request

Question

I have been going trough this problem since yesterday, and while I have been searching through StackOverflow and other forums I couldn't find an answer to that problem.

I am looking to call a JSON array from our company's API, I was trying this code but it didn't work.

constructor(public http: Http) {
  console.log('Data Service connected...');
}

getPosts() {
  const url = 'example.com';
  const header = new Headers();
  header.set('user', 'foo');
  header.append('password', 'bar');
  header.append('Content-Type', 'application/json');
  const options = new RequestOptions({headers: header});
  return this.http.get(url, options).map(res => res.json());
}

However when I try to compile I get an error 401 (Unauthorized), is there any way to input the username and the password to get the response from the API?

EDIT

Here are the request headers:

Accept-Encoding:gzip, deflate
Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8,ar;q=0.6
Access-Control-Request-Headers:content-type,password,user
Access-Control-Request-Method:GET
Connection:keep-alive
Host:ess.gtslb.com
Origin:http://evil.com/
Referer:http://localhost:4200/
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36

Are you able to call your api using a rest client? try to use a rest client(postman...) to understand what headers to set! — GUISSOUMA Issam, Jul 20 '17 at 08:45
yes denis gave me a good answer it helped me get through the first barrier — eBourgess, Jul 20 '17 at 09:49

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 20 '17 at 08:43

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Would be great to see the response header, have you tried to use jsonp? My guess you query a different server, and in this case you can't use a simple ajax call.

answered Jul 20 '17 at 08:43

Denis Baciu

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I am calling the api from the company's server to my local machine here I will update the question to add the request headers – eBourgess Jul 20 '17 at 08:45

adding api username and password to a HTTP.Get request

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