p.location-badge.
  exported from <a href='../http'>angular2/http</a>
  defined in <a href="https://github.com/angular/angular/tree/3a0410a/modules/angular2/src/http/base_request_options.ts#L7-L54">angular2/src/http/base_request_options.ts (line 7)</a>

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  Creates a request options object with default properties as described in the [Fetch
  Spec](https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#requestinit) to be optionally provided when instantiating a
  <a href='Request-class.html'><code>Request</code></a>. This class is used implicitly by <a href='Http-class.html'><code>Http</code></a> to merge in provided request
  options with the default options specified here. These same default options are injectable via
  the <a href='BaseRequestOptions-class.html'><code>BaseRequestOptions</code></a> class.
  
  
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        constructor({method, headers, body, mode, credentials, cache}?: IRequestOptions)
    
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      Http method with which to execute 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).
      
      





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      Body to be used when creating the request.
      
      





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        merge(opts?: IRequestOptions)
    
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      Creates a copy of the `RequestOptions` instance, using the optional input as values to override
      existing values.