How can I get all the request headers in Django?

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I need to get all the Django request headers. From what I've read, Django simply dumps everything into the request.META variable along with a lot of other data. What would be the best way to get all the headers that the client sent to my Django application?

I'm going use these to build a httplib request.

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10 Answers

Starting from Django 2.2, you can use request.headers to access the HTTP headers. From the documentation on HttpRequest.headers:

A case insensitive, dict-like object that provides access to all HTTP-prefixed headers (plus Content-Length and Content-Type) from the request.

The name of each header is stylized with title-casing (e.g. User-Agent) when it’s displayed. You can access headers case-insensitively:

>>> request.headers
{'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6', ...}

>>> 'User-Agent' in request.headers
True
>>> 'user-agent' in request.headers
True

>>> request.headers['User-Agent']
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6)
>>> request.headers['user-agent']
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6)

>>> request.headers.get('User-Agent')
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6)
>>> request.headers.get('user-agent')
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6)

To get all headers, you can use request.headers.keys() or request.headers.items().

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Simply you can use HttpRequest.headers from Django 2.2 onward. Following example is directly taken from the official Django Documentation under Request and response objects section.

>>> request.headers
{'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6', ...}

>>> 'User-Agent' in request.headers
True
>>> 'user-agent' in request.headers
True

>>> request.headers['User-Agent']
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6)
>>> request.headers['user-agent']
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6)

>>> request.headers.get('User-Agent')
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6)
>>> request.headers.get('user-agent')
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6)
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If you want to get client key from request header, u can try following:

from rest_framework.authentication import BaseAuthentication
from rest_framework import exceptions
from apps.authentication.models import CerebroAuth

class CerebroAuthentication(BaseAuthentication):
def authenticate(self, request):
    client_id = request.META.get('HTTP_AUTHORIZATION')
    if not client_id:
        raise exceptions.AuthenticationFailed('Client key not provided')
    client_id = client_id.split()
    if len(client_id) == 1 or len(client_id) > 2:
        msg = ('Invalid secrer key header. No credentials provided.')
        raise exceptions.AuthenticationFailed(msg)
    try:
        client = CerebroAuth.objects.get(client_id=client_id[1])
    except CerebroAuth.DoesNotExist:
        raise exceptions.AuthenticationFailed('No such client')
    return (client, None)
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Just be aware to use "-" instead of "_" in header Key

Because if you use "Current_User" in header, you can not get it by

request.headers.get('Current_User')   <-- None

user "xxx-xxx" as the key

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