Adding a HTTP header to the Angular HttpClient doesn't send the header, why?

Question

Here is my code:

import { HttpClient, HttpErrorResponse, HttpHeaders } from \'@angular/common/http\';

Answer 1

I struggled with this for a long time. I am using Angular 6 and I found that

let headers = new HttpHeaders();
headers = headers.append('key', 'value');

did not work. But what did work was

let headers = new HttpHeaders().append('key', 'value');

did, which makes sense when you realize they are immutable. So having created a header you can't add to it. I haven't tried it, but I suspect

let headers = new HttpHeaders();
let headers1 = headers.append('key', 'value');

would work too.