Set a Request Header

Problem

You need to send an HTTP request with specific request headers.

Solution

Set the msg.headers field to the field value pairs of the request headers you would like to include in the message sent to the HTTP request node.

Example

Flow JSON

[{"id":"92272f91.20a43","type":"inject","z":"c9a81b70.8abed8","name":"","topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"date","repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"x":120,"y":760,"wires":[["af92df2f.3032e"]]},{"id":"64da113d.24a75","type":"http request","z":"c9a81b70.8abed8","name":"post to FRED","method":"POST","ret":"txt","url":"http://mike.fred.sensetecnic.com/api/test","tls":"","x":520,"y":760,"wires":[["31ab53be.5111dc"]]},{"id":"af92df2f.3032e","type":"function","z":"c9a81b70.8abed8","name":"set payload and headers","func":"msg.payload = \"data to post\";\nmsg.headers = {};\nmsg.headers['X-Auth-User'] = 'mike';\nmsg.headers['X-Auth-Key'] = 'fred-key';\n\nreturn msg;","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"x":310,"y":760,"wires":[["64da113d.24a75"]]},{"id":"31ab53be.5111dc","type":"debug","z":"c9a81b70.8abed8","name":"","active":true,"console":"false","complete":"false","x":690,"y":760,"wires":[]}]

In this example we set the X-Auth-User and X-Auth-Key request headers to call a private HTTP input node on the FRED Ignite cloud service.

The code in the Function node below adds these additional message fields by adding a msg.headers object, and setting the header field/values in this object as shown.

msg.payload = "data to post";
msg.headers = {};
msg.headers['X-Auth-User'] = 'mike';
msg.headers['X-Auth-Key'] = 'fred-key';
return msg;