How to access request headers

[mydoghasworms]

Sorry for this newbie question, but I can't find the answer in the
documentation:

How do I access the HTTP request headers in my sinatra app? The
request method seems to give access only to response headers.

[Ryan Tomayko]

The request or env objects give access to request headers:

request.env['HTTP_USER_AGENT']
env['HTTP_USER_AGENT']

See the Rack spec for more information on what can be included in the env Hash:

http://rack.rubyforge.org/doc/SPEC.html

The response objects gives access to response headers:

response['Content-Type'] = 'text/plain'

Thanks,
Ryan
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[mydoghasworms]

Thanks Ryan, that did the trick.

[Giorgio Robino]

in facts
I just discovered a 'trick'...

if a param in header is 'MYPARAM'

I can access it with env['HTTP_MYPARAM']

... so Sinatra 1.4.5 seem to add the "HTTP_" prefix ... ?!

strange.
giorgio

[Iain Barnett]

On 28 Nov 2014, at 11:12, Giorgio Robino <giorgio...@gmail.com> wrote:

in facts
I just discovered a 'trick'...

if a param in header is 'MYPARAM'

I can access it with env['HTTP_MYPARAM']

... so Sinatra 1.4.5 seem to add the "HTTP_" prefix ... ?!

strange.
giorgio

That’s part of the Rack spec. See http://www.rubydoc.info/github/rack/rack/file/SPEC under  HTTP_ Variables.

Regards,

iain