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add http header

Description

Add a name/value pair as an HTTP header field that you might want to include with your request.

Arguments

• key

  Name of the header field

• value

  (Optional) Value of the header field

Valid contexts

This action may be used within the following project items: test modules and user-defined actions.

Notes

• An HTTP request must be instantiated via create http request before calling this built-in action.
• Refer to here for syntax and semantics of all standard HTTP header fields. In general, each header field consists of a name followed by a colon (":") and the field value.
• This action supports the <ignore> modifier. If the string <ignore> is present as the value of any of the arguments, or any argument contains an expression that evaluates to <ignore>, the action is skipped during execution.

Applicable Built-In Settings

The following settings are applicable to this action: remove double quotes from cells.

Example

Suppose that you’d like to test a Google Maps API with the following header fields:

Accept-Encoding: gzip;q=1.0, identity; q=0.5, *;q=0
Authorization: Basic Sm9obi5TBWI0aDpwQHNzd29yZA==
Host: maps.googleapis.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.1.1(java1.5)

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Testing web services