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/http.ts#L22-L142">angular2/src/http/http.ts (line 22)</a>

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  Performs http requests using `XMLHttpRequest` as the default backend.
  
  `Http` is available as an injectable class, with methods to perform http requests. Calling
  `request` returns an
  [Observable](https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS/blob/master/doc/api/core/observable.md),
  which will emit a single <a href='Response-class.html'><code>Response</code></a> when a response is
  received.
  
  #Example
  
  ```
  import {Http, httpInjectables} from 'angular2/http';
  @Component({selector: 'http-app', appInjector: [httpInjectables]})
  @View({templateUrl: 'people.html'})
  class PeopleComponent {
    constructor(http: Http) {
      http('people.json')
        // Call map on the response observable to get the parsed people object
        .map(res => res.json())
        // Subscribe to the observable to get the parsed people object and attach it to the
        // component
        .subscribe(people => this.people = people);
    }
  }
  ```
  
  The default construct used to perform requests, `XMLHttpRequest`, is abstracted as a "Backend" (
  <a href='XHRBackend-class.html'><code>XHRBackend</code></a> in this case), which could be mocked with dependency injection by replacing
  the <a href='XHRBackend-class.html'><code>XHRBackend</code></a> binding, as in the following example:
  
  #Example
  
  ```
  import {MockBackend, BaseRequestOptions, Http} from 'angular2/http';
  var injector = Injector.resolveAndCreate([
    BaseRequestOptions,
    MockBackend,
    bind(Http).toFactory(
        function(backend, defaultOptions) {
          return new Http(backend, defaultOptions);
        },
        [MockBackend, BaseRequestOptions])
  ]);
  var http = injector.get(Http);
  http.get('request-from-mock-backend.json').subscribe((res:Response) => doSomething(res));
  ```
  
  
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        request(url: string | Request, options?: IRequestOptions)
    
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      Performs any type of http request. First argument is required, and can either be a url or
      a <a href='Request-class.html'><code>Request</code></a> instance. If the first argument is a url, an optional <a href='RequestOptions-class.html'><code>RequestOptions</code></a>
      object can be provided as the 2nd argument. The options object will be merged with the values
      of <a href='BaseRequestOptions-class.html'><code>BaseRequestOptions</code></a> before performing the request.
      
      





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        get(url: string, options?: IRequestOptions)
    
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      Performs a request with `get` http method.
      
      





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        post(url: string, body: URLSearchParams | FormData | Blob | string, options?: IRequestOptions)
    
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      Performs a request with `post` http method.
      
      





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        put(url: string, body: URLSearchParams | FormData | Blob | string, options?: IRequestOptions)
    
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      Performs a request with `put` http method.
      
      





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        delete(url: string, options?: IRequestOptions)
    
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      Performs a request with `delete` http method.
      
      





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        patch(url: string, body: URLSearchParams | FormData | Blob | string, options?: IRequestOptions)
    
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      Performs a request with `patch` http method.
      
      





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        head(url: string, options?: IRequestOptions)
    
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      Performs a request with `head` http method.