No way to get HTTP response Reason Phrase from $http

[gimmi]

As described in the subject, seems that there is no way to access HTTP reason phrase from $http results:

$http.get(/*...*/).then(function (ret) {
    // ret.status is available, but not ret.reasonPhrase
}, function (err) {
    // ret.status is available, but not ret.reasonPhrase
});

I know that the reasonPrase should only contain a human readable translation of the status code, but i have some service that uses it to return additional infos not found elsewhere. Can reason phrase be added to the returned object?

[IgorMinar]

I believe that there was a PR for this but I can't find it now.

The PR changed a ton of stuff in http and we weren't happy about that.

If someone can create a PR with minimal changes to http/httpBackend then we'll accept it, otherwise I find it hard to justify big code changes for this obscure feature.

[gimmi]

Hmm I'll take a look at it during weekend

[benbenwilde]

+1

[mjc-gh]

Shouldn't this be as easy as adding the (properly parsed) statusText to the completeRequest() call in $httpBackend. Then in $http we would need to just add the additional parameters to both done() and resolvePromise().

One a site note, should the signatures of these functions be made more consistent? Should it always be (status, statusText, response, headers)?

[lennybacon]

+1

PR: #2665

[linclark]

Looks like #2665 was committed as #6713.