Angular2 watch for 302 redirect when fetching resource

Question

I have a requirement to pull a few resources from another domain held by my company. I want to pull secured HTML content with GET requests.

When a user is signed out of the application the requested content will return a 302 to the login page.

My attempts to sniff the headers for a 302 haven't returned what I'd hoped for so far. The response returned by my Observable is a 200 (login page).

Here is my sample app.

export class MenuComponent implements OnInit {

    private _resourceUrl = "http://localhost:3001/resources/menu";

    constructor(private _http: Http){
    }

    menu: string;

    ngOnInit(): void {
        this.getMenu()
            .subscribe(
                response => {
                    console.log(`Response status: ${response.status}`);

                    this.menu = response.text();
                },
                error => console.log(<any>error));
    }

    getMenu(): Observable<Response>{        
        return this._http.get(this._resourceUrl)
            .map((response: Response) => response)
            .catch(this.handleError);
    }

    private handleError(error: Response){
        console.log(error);
        return Observable.throw(error.json().error || 'Server Error');
    }
}

Am I even on the right track?

Answer 1

If the server sends a redirect with a 302 status code with the URL to redirect within a Location header, the redirect is automatically handled by the browser, i.e. a request to this URL is executed.

That's why XHR (and the Angular2 wrapper around it, i.e. the Http class) won't see the result of the first request but only the response of the second one.