diff --git a/modules/angular2/src/http/interfaces.ts b/modules/angular2/src/http/interfaces.ts
index 532860f7f8..fb362b3642 100644
--- a/modules/angular2/src/http/interfaces.ts
+++ b/modules/angular2/src/http/interfaces.ts
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ export abstract class Connection {
 }
 
 /**
- * Interface for options to construct a Request, based on
+ * Interface for options to construct a RequestOptions, based on
  * [RequestInit](https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#requestinit) from the Fetch spec.
  */
-export type RequestOptionsArgs = {
+export interface RequestOptionsArgs {
   url?: string;
   method?: string | RequestMethods;
   search?: string | URLSearchParams;
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ export type RequestOptionsArgs = {
   body?: string;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Required structure when constructing new Request();
+ */
+export interface RequestArgs extends RequestOptionsArgs { url: string; }
+
 /**
  * Interface for options to construct a Response, based on
  * [ResponseInit](https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#responseinit) from the Fetch spec.
diff --git a/modules/angular2/src/http/static_request.ts b/modules/angular2/src/http/static_request.ts
index 132ee44b07..3b09fe93f7 100644
--- a/modules/angular2/src/http/static_request.ts
+++ b/modules/angular2/src/http/static_request.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import {RequestMethods} from './enums';
-import {RequestOptions} from './base_request_options';
+import {RequestArgs} from './interfaces';
 import {Headers} from './headers';
 import {normalizeMethodName} from './http_utils';
 import {
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ export class Request {
   url: string;
   // TODO: support URLSearchParams | FormData | Blob | ArrayBuffer
   private _body: string;
-  constructor(requestOptions: RequestOptions) {
+  constructor(requestOptions: RequestArgs) {
     // TODO: assert that url is present
     let url = requestOptions.url;
     this.url = requestOptions.url;