Strange behaviour of Angular2 Http.post() error callback

Question

I am using Angular2/Http to do a post request and send some data to a server:

let myheaders = new Headers();
myheaders.append('Content-Type', 'application/json');
let options = new RequestOptions({ headers: myheaders });
let resourceStr = '{"foo": "bar"}';
let foo = this.http.post('http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/invalid', resourceStr, options)
.subscribe(
  data => {
    console.log(data);
  }, 
  error => { 
    console.warn(error.statusText);
  });

If the server responds with NOT FOUND (404) (eg, my URL is wrong), the error callback of the Observable will be called but the statusText will be set Ok . However, if I change the Content-Type in the headers from application/json to text/plain , the error callback will be called and the statusText will be set to NOT FOUND as it is supposed to.

Anybody has the same problem?

PS: I am using Angular2 rc2

Answer 1

Turns out there was a bug in the rc2 version. The rc3 version which was released ~2 days ago fixes this problem.