Angular2 Provide Custom Http Not Working
<p>We need a global space to capture http 401,403, and 500 responses.  I looked at a few tutorials and tried an approach of extending http.  Here is my custom HTTP (largely copied from online)</p>

<pre><code>import { Http, ConnectionBackend, Request, RequestOptions, RequestOptionsArgs, Response, Headers} from '@angular/http';
import { Router} from '@angular/router';
import { Injectable} from '@angular/core';
import { Observable} from 'rxjs/Rx';

@Injectable()


export class CustomHttp extends Http {

    constructor(backend: ConnectionBackend, defaultOptions: RequestOptions, private _router : Router) {
        super(backend, defaultOptions);
    }

    request(url: string | Request, options?: RequestOptionsArgs): Observable&lt;Response&gt; {
        return this.intercept(super.request(url, options));
    }

    get(url: string, options?: RequestOptionsArgs): Observable&lt;Response&gt; {
        return this.intercept(super.get(url, options));
    }

    post(url: string, body: string, options?: RequestOptionsArgs): Observable&lt;Response&gt; {
        return this.intercept(super.post(url, body, this.getRequestOptionArgs(options)));
    }

    put(url: string, body: string, options?: RequestOptionsArgs): Observable&lt;Response&gt; {
        return this.intercept(super.put(url, body, this.getRequestOptionArgs(options)));
    }

    delete(url: string, options?: RequestOptionsArgs): Observable&lt;Response&gt; {
        return this.intercept(super.delete(url, options));
    }

    getRequestOptionArgs(options?: RequestOptionsArgs): RequestOptionsArgs {
        if (options == null) {
            options = new RequestOptions();
        }
        if (options.headers == null) {
            options.headers = new Headers();
        }
        options.headers.append('Content-Type', 'application/json');
        return options;
    }

    intercept(observable: Observable&lt;Response&gt;): Observable&lt;Response&gt; {
        return observable.catch((err, source) =&gt; {
            console.log('CustomHttp Error status:  ' + err.status);
            return Observable.throw(err); 
        });
    }

}
</code></pre>

<p>Here is how I bootstrap my app and try to replace default HTTP with my implementation:</p>

<pre><code>import { bootstrap }    from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { HTTP_PROVIDERS, Http, XHRBackend, RequestOptions} from '@angular/http';
import { ROUTER_DIRECTIVES, Router } from '@angular/router';
import { APP_ROUTER_PROVIDERS  } from './app.routes';
import { provide, PLATFORM_DIRECTIVES} from '@angular/core';
import { LocationStrategy, HashLocationStrategy } from '@angular/common';
import { CustomHttp } from './utils/http/customhttp';


    bootstrap(AppComponent, [
        APP_ROUTER_PROVIDERS,
        HTTP_PROVIDERS,
        provide(LocationStrategy, { useClass: HashLocationStrategy }),
        provide(PLATFORM_DIRECTIVES, { useValue: [ROUTER_DIRECTIVES], multi: true }),
        provide( Http, {
            useFactory: (xhrBackend: XHRBackend, requestOptions: RequestOptions, router: Router) =&gt; new CustomHttp(xhrBackend, requestOptions, router),
            deps: [XHRBackend, RequestOptions, Router]
        }),
    ]);
</code></pre>

<p>The no compile errors but when I try to make some http requests its using the default provider and not my implementation.  I know this because I purposefully call a webapi endpoint that returns a 500 and don't set into my catch clause and write a log statement.</p>

<p>Here are my js dependancies:</p>

<pre><code> "dependencies": {
    "@angular/common": "2.0.0-rc.4",
    "@angular/compiler": "2.0.0-rc.4",
    "@angular/core": "2.0.0-rc.4",
    "@angular/forms": "0.2.0",
    "@angular/http": "2.0.0-rc.4",
    "@angular/platform-browser": "2.0.0-rc.4",
    "@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "2.0.0-rc.4",
    "@angular/router": "3.0.0-beta.1",
    "@angular/router-deprecated": "2.0.0-rc.2",
    "@angular/upgrade": "2.0.0-rc.4",

    "systemjs": "0.19.27",
    "core-js": "^2.4.0",
    "reflect-metadata": "^0.1.3",
    "rxjs": "5.0.0-beta.6",
    "zone.js": "^0.6.12",

    "lodash": "4.13.1",
    "angular2-in-memory-web-api": "0.0.14",
    "bootstrap": "^3.3.6"
  }
</code></pre>

<p>What glue am I missing here?</p>