Custom HTTP headers?

cherub

I'm doing some stuff with post data, and need to include a custom http header along with the request, specifically 'X-AjaxPro-Method: ServerSideSaveTopic'. Is there any way I can manually set this in the engine script? The closest I could find in the docu was 'form request with=' but that only affects the X-Requested-With header.

cherub

Something like:

add http header=X-AjaxPro-Method=ServerSideSaveTopic

to pair with post data= would be awesome!

Sven

hmm right now there is no way to do this. I never thought it would be required. Never heared of a site that would rely on custom headers send by a browser. Is it really required?

cherub

Yeah it seems to be a feature of the AjaxPro framework http://ajaxpro.codeplex.com/
The headers get sent as part of the ajax request when submitting json data. Took me a while to work out that the custom header was required!

Sven

I will try to add that automatically if the post data is json like.

cherub

That would be cool, thanks Sven. Though that header might not be needed for all sites that use json data; in the future, some sort of syntax to manually add http headers might be more elegant

cherub

Hey @Sven, did you have a chance to add anything like this? I've seen a few script engine updates in the changelog, such as 'improved minor parts of submission' on 8.54 but am not sure if it related to this. I've found a couple more sites/platforms that use a http header to send instructions (all ajax related), so it should be a useful feature for future engines.

Sven

The one from original post should be added automatically.

cherub

Thanks Sven! So theoretically, this code should invoke the header?

modify url=/mysubmiturl.php
post data={"somejson":data,"goes":"here","myarticle":"%article%"}
encode post data=0
just download=1

It might be useful for it to show what headers are sent with each request in the debug window too.

Sven

Yes it should send that. However I couldn't test it as I had no engine using it.

Yes I might have to change this thing later on if n´more custom header are set by script. In that case I will add debug data.

cherub

I'm finding it difficult to get this working in SER, though I can copy the same POST request and send it via Perl or via http://hurl.it with no problems. Does SER send a 'Content-Length' header? I think this may be needed when submitting JSON data.

Sven

of course it sends content-length as thats required by every post packet.

cherub

Yep of course, sorry, was clutching at straws I guess.