AngularJS - Cannot read response headers from $http

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My http response contains the headers Authentication (as mentioned here: Authentication:76efbc0946773b62c93e952b502a47acd898200f6f80dc46ac87ffc501c00780) when I inspect the request with the inspector, but a call to headers("Authentication") returns null

return $http({
    method: "GET",
    url: url,
    headers: {
      'Content-Type': "application/json"
    }
}).success(function (data, status, headers, config) {
    console.log(headers("Authentication"));
})

Do you have any idea about what I could be doing the wrong way ?

FYI, i've tried to switch it back to a "promise" way, with .then, and the issue is still the same.

You probably need to add Access-Control-Expose-Headers to your response from the server to make it accessible - see stackoverflow.com/questions/17038436/… — Brad Barber
– Brad Barber, Commented Mar 21, 2015 at 18:04

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:46:37Z

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Your code looks good but if it's a CORS request the server needs to include Access-Control-Expose-Headers: {any custom headers} in the response.

There's a previous question/answer with more details: Reading response headers when using $http of Angularjs

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maheshsgr Over a year ago

Will enabling CORS not impact on security. Shouldn't we send the required data in response body.

SilvR-O · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-23 16:56:38Z

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In success callback put :

console.log(headers('content-type'));
console.log(headers());  // All headers

I think the first line return a result in your cas.
In the seconde, have you got the 'Authentication' ?

The custom headers will be visible in same domain. In crossdomain case, you need to send Access-Control-Expose-Headers: Authentication, ... header from server.

answered Mar 23, 2015 at 16:56

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