HttpListenerRequest.Headers Property

Definition

Gets the collection of header name/value pairs sent in the request.

C#
public System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection Headers { get; }

Property Value

A WebHeaderCollection that contains the HTTP headers included in the request.

Examples

The following code example displays all the information in a given WebHeaderCollection object.

C#
    // Displays the header information that accompanied a request.
public static void DisplayWebHeaderCollection(HttpListenerRequest request)
{
    System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection headers = request.Headers;
    // Get each header and display each value.
    foreach (string key in headers.AllKeys)
    {
        string[] values = headers.GetValues(key);
        if(values.Length > 0)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("The values of the {0} header are: ", key);
            foreach (string value in values)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("   {0}", value);
            }
        }
        else
        {
            Console.WriteLine("There is no value associated with the header.");
        }
    }
}

Remarks

Request headers contain metadata information. For example, headers can contain the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of the resource that referred the client to the server, the identity of the user agent employed by the client, and the acceptable MIME types for data in the response body.

For a complete list of request headers, see the HttpRequestHeader enumeration.

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET Core 2.0, Core 2.1, Core 2.2, Core 3.0, Core 3.1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
.NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1
.NET Standard 2.0, 2.1

See also