p.location-badge.
  exported from <a href='../http'>angular2/http</a>
  defined in <a href="https://github.com/angular/angular/tree/2.0.0-alpha.37/modules/angular2/src/http/static_request.ts#L10-L74">angular2/src/http/static_request.ts (line 10)</a>

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  The http module provides services to perform http requests. To get started, see the <a href='Http-class.html'><code>Http</code></a>
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      Http method with which to perform the request.
      
      Defaults to GET.
      
      





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      Headers object based on the `Headers` class in the [Fetch
      Spec](https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#headers-class). <a href='Headers-class.html'><code>Headers</code></a> class reference.
      
      





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      Url of the remote resource
      
      





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      Returns the request's body as string, assuming that body exists. If body is undefined, return
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