Http does not catch connection refused error

[tsluijter]

Hi,

I want to catch all http errors to inform the user of an occurred problem.

So, I created a method that does a http get with a catch.

get(path: string): Promise<any> {
    let headers = new Headers();
    return this.http.get(path, { headers: headers })
        .toPromise()
        .then(response => { ... })
        .catch((response: Response) => { this.errorHandler(response); });
  }

When the path is '/fault-url' the catch is handled as expected.
But when the path is 'http://localhost:5000/fault-url' the error is not catched by the catch method.
I've added logging to all different places, but it seams the get method just aborts.
The console log shows following errors

OPTIONS http://localhost:5000/fault-url net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
EXCEPTION: Response with status: 0 for URL: null
Uncaught Response {_body: ProgressEvent, status: 0, ok: false, statusText: "", headers: Headers…}

[mattdistefano]

You probably want to log this in https://github.com/angular/angular/issues instead - this repo is for the angular.io website.

[tsluijter]

I will do that, Thanks.