httr (version 0.5)

add_headers: Add additional headers to a request.

Description

Wikipedia provides a useful list of common http headers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields.

Usage

add_headers(..., .headers = character())

Arguments

...

named header values. To stop an existing header from being set, pass an empty string: "".

.headers

a named character vector

See Also

accept and content_type for convenience functions for setting accept and content-type headers.

Other config: authenticate; config; set_cookies; timeout; use_proxy; user_agent; verbose

Examples

add_headers(a = 1, b = 2)
add_headers(.headers = c(a = "1", b = "2"))

GET("http://httpbin.org/headers")

# Add arbitrary headers
GET("http://httpbin.org/headers",
 add_headers(version = version$version.string))

# Override default headers with empty strings
GET("http://httpbin.org/headers", add_headers(Accept = ""))