OxL Reference

method Request.header

The first header with this name (case-insensitive).

Example:

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use std.http { Request, Header }

fn sample() -> Request {
  Request{
    method: "GET", target: "/search?q=oxl&tag=a&tag=b", path: "/search", rawQuery: "q=oxl&tag=a&tag=b", version: "HTTP/1.1",
    headers: [Header{ name: "Accept", value: "text/html" }, Header{ name: "Cookie", value: "sid=42; theme=dark" }, Header{ name: "X-Id", value: "1" }, Header{ name: "x-id", value: "2" }],
    body: Utf8.encode("payload"), peer: "127.0.0.1:50000", params: [Header{ name: "id", value: "7" }]
  }
}

fn main() io {
  let r = sample()
  print("{r.header("ACCEPT") ?? "-"} {r.header("x-id") ?? "-"} {r.header("origin") ?? "-"}")
}
Output
text/html 1 -
pub(api) fn header(name: str) -> str?

Complexity. O(h) in the number of headers.

Since. 1.0.0-beta

Parameters

NameType
namestr

Returns

str?

Effects

none declared (pure unless the body says otherwise)

Defined in: std/http/http.oxl:1486

See also