how to get location with universal

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What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior? I am creating a white label website on which the content shown is dependant from the url used by my users. I cannot use window.location as it is not available server side.

• Angular version: 4.1.0

I would be pleased to help you implement this, but do you have any lead on how to do it ?

Thanks !!

PS: This topic seems interesting : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43403649/how-to-get-full-base-url-including-server-port-and-protocol-in-angular-univer

[theomathieubhvr]

OK i managed to do it !

I can make a Pull request if needed (but I think this is too specific).

To sum up how I did, I created a custom OriginService for server (for browser I just set origin to window.location.origin).

import { Injectable, Inject } from '@angular/core';
import { Request } from 'express';
import { REQUEST } from '@nguniversal/express-engine/tokens';

@Injectable()
export class OriginService {
  public origin: string;

  constructor(@Inject(REQUEST) private request: Request) {
    this.origin = request.hostname;
  }
}

[dr1ss]

Any way to achieve this (get the express request object) with @ngx-universal/express-engine please ?