How to Set Http Header Fields in Objective-C

How to set Http header Fields in Objective-C?

You can pass the information in header using NSMutableURLRequest class and then call the NSURLConnection class(it will call the connection delegate).

see the following code,

NSMutableURLRequest *theRequest=[NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[myServerUrl stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]]
                                                        cachePolicy:NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringLocalCacheData
                                                    timeoutInterval:60.0];
//do post request for parameter passing 
[theRequest setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];

//set the content type to JSON
[theRequest setValue:@"xml" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];

//passing key as a http header request 
[theRequest addValue:@"value1" forHTTPHeaderField:@"key1"];

//passing key as a http header request
[theRequest addValue:@"value2" forHTTPHeaderField:@"key2"];

NSURLConnection *theConnection = [[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:theRequest delegate:self];

if( theConnection )
{
    webData = [[NSMutableData data] retain];
}
else
{
    NSLog(@"theConnection is NULL");
}

[theConnection release];

How to set http header for for HTTP in Objective-C?

Use the following:

[request setValue:@"xxx" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];

But you have to change the NSURLRequest to NSMutableURLRequest, please check Zaph's answer

NSURLRequest setting the HTTP header

You need to use a NSMutableURLRequest

NSMutableURLRequest* request = [[[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:url]
                                autorelease];

[request setValue:VALUE forHTTPHeaderField:@"Field You Want To Set"];

or to add a header:

[request addValue:VALUE forHTTPHeaderField:@"Field You Want To Set"];

How to get HTTP headers

This falls under the easy, but not obvious class of iPhone programming problems. Worthy of a quick post:

The headers for an HTTP connection are included in the NSHTTPURLResponse class. If you have an NSHTTPURLResponse variable you can easily get the headers out as a NSDictionary by sending the allHeaderFields message.

For synchronous requests — not recommended, because they block — it’s easy to populate an NSHTTPURLResponse:

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.mobileorchard.com"];
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL: url];
NSHTTPURLResponse *response;
[NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest: request returningResponse: &response error: nil];
if ([response respondsToSelector:@selector(allHeaderFields)]) {
NSDictionary *dictionary = [response allHeaderFields];
NSLog([dictionary description]);
}

With an asynchronous request you have to do a little more work. When the callback connection:didReceiveResponse: is called, it is passed an NSURLResponse as the second parameter. You can cast it to an NSHTTPURLResponse like so:

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveResponse:(NSURLResponse *)response {
 NSHTTPURLResponse *httpResponse = (NSHTTPURLResponse*)response;    
if ([response respondsToSelector:@selector(allHeaderFields)]) {
    NSDictionary *dictionary = [httpResponse allHeaderFields];
    NSLog([dictionary description]);
}
}

How do i set multiple http header using sessionManager (AFNetworking)

The Accept header takes a comma separated list, so something like this should work:

[_sessionManager.requestSerializer setValue:@"application/json, application/xml" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Accept"];

Obviously replace application/xml with whatever you need.

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