How do you access the responses on the http response body?

I wrote the following code in Angular 2:

this.http.request('http://thecatapi.com/api/images/get?format=html&results_per_page=10').
      subscribe((res: Response) => {
        console.log(res);
      })

When I print the response I get in console:

I want to have access to the body field in the response code The body field starts with an underscore which means that it's a private field When I change it to 'console.log(res._body)' I got an error.

Do you know the getter function that can help me here?

Both Request and Response extend Body. To get the contents, use the text() method.

this.http.request('http://thecatapi.com/api/images/get?format=html&results_per_page=10')
    .subscribe(response => console.log(response.text()))

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This api was deprecated in angular 5 The new HttpResponse<T> class instead has a .body() method. With a {responseType: 'text'} that should return a String .