So, I have looked at some answers and will try to be as complete as I can as to what I have tried. Being a new fish here, I did look first but did not find a satisfactory answer.
First the problem. I am attempting to post id, password to an endpoint called obviously enough '/login' which is running on node. I have run the endpoint using postman and it does work.. I have tried with the httpOptions header set to json (thank you stackoverflow) but I am still getting the 404. I have for this purpose coding in the standard console logging to see where the flow is and it does not even get to the route.post..
Failed to load http://localhost:3000/login: Response for preflight has invalid HTTP status code 404.
First the angular side of things. As a service
public login(user, passwd) {
console.log('url %s user %s passwd %s', this.url, user, passwd);
const httpOptions = {
headers: new HttpHeaders({
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
})
};
this.http.post(this.url, {
id: user,
password: passwd
},
httpOptions)
.subscribe(
res => {
console.log(res);
},
err => {
console.log('Error occured %o', err);
}
);
}
Now the node code.. I placed a get here as well in case for some reason I was firing the wrong thing - i am not even getting the console logs.
app.route('/login')
.get(sessionChecker, (req, res) => {
console.log ('login get');
res.json({login : false});
res.sendFile(__dirname + '/public/login.html');
})
.post((request, response) => {
console.log("sesssion is %o", request.session);
// taken from personal code I wrote a few years back
console.log('request %o', request.query);
let username = request.query.id;
let password = request.query.password;
console.log('user %s pass %s', username, password);
I do fall all the way through to my 404 url not found code.
// route for handling 404 requests(unavailable routes)
app.use(function (req, res, next) {
console.log(' some sort of error ');
res.status(404).send("Sorry can't find that!")
});
I get from here the message "Sorry Can't find that" which I would expect if I was giving the wrong url.
