Rack::Request - how do I get all headers?
The HTTP headers are available in the Rack environment passed to your app:
HTTP_
Variables: Variables corresponding to the client-supplied HTTP request headers (i.e., variables whose names begin with HTTP_). The presence or absence of these variables should correspond with the presence or absence of the appropriate HTTP header in the request.
So the HTTP headers are prefixed with "HTTP_" and added to the hash.
Here's a little program that extracts and displays them:
require 'rack'
app = Proc.new do |env|
headers = env.select {|k,v| k.start_with? 'HTTP_'}
.collect {|key, val| [key.sub(/^HTTP_/, ''), val]}
.collect {|key, val| "#{key}: #{val}<br>"}
.sort
[200, {'Content-Type' => 'text/html'}, headers]
end
Rack::Server.start :app => app, :Port => 8080
When I run this, in addition to the HTTP headers as shown by Chrome or Firefox, there is a "VERSION: HTPP/1.1" (i.e. an entry with key "HTTP_VERSION" and value "HTTP/1.1" is being added to the env hash).
Based on @matt's answer, but this really gives you the request headers in a hash as requested in the question:
headers = Hash[*env.select {|k,v| k.start_with? 'HTTP_'}
.collect {|k,v| [k.sub(/^HTTP_/, ''), v]}
.collect {|k,v| [k.split('_').collect(&:capitalize).join('-'), v]}
.sort
.flatten]
Depending on what key convention you prefer you might want to use something else instead of :capitalize.
Like @Gavriel's answer, but using transform_keys
(simpler):
class Request
def headers
env.select { |k,v| k.start_with? 'HTTP_'}.
transform_keys { |k| k.sub(/^HTTP_/, '').split('_').map(&:capitalize).join('-') }
end
end
You can even make it so lookups still work even if the case is different:
def headers
env.
select { |k,v| k.start_with? 'HTTP_'}.
transform_keys { |k| k.sub(/^HTTP_/, '').split('_').map(&:capitalize).join('-') }.
sort.to_h.
tap do |headers|
headers.define_singleton_method :[] do |k|
super(k.split(/[-_]/).map(&:capitalize).join('-'))
end
end
end
So for example, even if headers
normalizes the keys so it returns this:
{
Dnt: '1',
Etag: 'W/"ec4454af5ae1bacff1afc5a06a2133f4"',
'X-Xss-Protection': '1; mode=block',
}
you can still look up headers using the more natural/common names for these headers:
headers['DNT']
headers['ETag']
headers['X-XSS-Protection']