public login(user, passwd) {
console.log('url %s user %s passwd %s', this.url, user, passwd);

const httpOptions = {
  headers: new HttpHeaders({
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
  })
};

this.http.post(this.url, {
    id: user,
    password: passwd
  },
  httpOptions)

  .subscribe(
    res => {
      console.log(res);
    },
    err => {
      console.log('Error occured %o', err);
    }
  );
 }
 .... cut the reset of this as db code don't matter if I don't get to
 here.

app.route('/login')
.get(sessionChecker, (req, res) => {
    console.log ('login get');
    res.json({login : false});
    res.sendFile(__dirname + '/public/login.html');
})
.post((request, response) => {

    console.log("sesssion is %o", request.session);

    // taken from personal code I wrote a few years back
    console.log('request %o', request.query);
    let username = request.query.id;
    let password = request.query.password;

    console.log('user %s pass %s', username, password);

// route for handling 404 requests(unavailable routes)
app.use(function (req, res, next) {
console.log(' some sort of error ');
res.status(404).send("Sorry can't find that!")
});