Are there any constants for the default HTTP headers?

Question

Has Microsoft created a class full of constants for the standard HTTP header names or will I have to write my own?

Answer 1

I found this question while trying to discover the same thing: where are the header name constants as strings?

In ASP.NET Core, Microsoft.Net.Http.Headers.HeaderNames is the class that saved me.

public static class HeaderNames   {     public const string Accept = "Accept";     public const string AcceptCharset = "Accept-Charset";     public const string AcceptEncoding = "Accept-Encoding";     public const string AcceptLanguage = "Accept-Language";     public const string AcceptRanges = "Accept-Ranges";     public const string Age = "Age";     public const string Allow = "Allow";     public const string Authorization = "Authorization";     public const string CacheControl = "Cache-Control";     public const string Connection = "Connection";     public const string ContentDisposition = "Content-Disposition";     public const string ContentEncoding = "Content-Encoding";     public const string ContentLanguage = "Content-Language";     public const string ContentLength = "Content-Length";     public const string ContentLocation = "Content-Location";     public const string ContentMD5 = "Content-MD5";     public const string ContentRange = "Content-Range";     public const string ContentType = "Content-Type";     public const string Cookie = "Cookie";     public const string Date = "Date";     public const string ETag = "ETag";     public const string Expires = "Expires";     public const string Expect = "Expect";     public const string From = "From";     public const string Host = "Host";     public const string IfMatch = "If-Match";     public const string IfModifiedSince = "If-Modified-Since";     public const string IfNoneMatch = "If-None-Match";     public const string IfRange = "If-Range";     public const string IfUnmodifiedSince = "If-Unmodified-Since";     public const string LastModified = "Last-Modified";     public const string Location = "Location";     public const string MaxForwards = "Max-Forwards";     public const string Pragma = "Pragma";     public const string ProxyAuthenticate = "Proxy-Authenticate";     public const string ProxyAuthorization = "Proxy-Authorization";     public const string Range = "Range";     public const string Referer = "Referer";     public const string RetryAfter = "Retry-After";     public const string Server = "Server";     public const string SetCookie = "Set-Cookie";     public const string TE = "TE";     public const string Trailer = "Trailer";     public const string TransferEncoding = "Transfer-Encoding";     public const string Upgrade = "Upgrade";     public const string UserAgent = "User-Agent";     public const string Vary = "Vary";     public const string Via = "Via";     public const string Warning = "Warning";     public const string WebSocketSubProtocols = "Sec-WebSocket-Protocol";     public const string WWWAuthenticate = "WWW-Authenticate";   } 

Answer 2

Request Headers

/// <summary> /// Contains the standard set of headers applicable to an HTTP request. /// </summary> public static class HttpRequestHeaders {     ///<summary>Content-Types that are acceptable</summary>     public const string Accept = "Accept";     ///<summary>Character sets that are acceptable</summary>     public const string AcceptCharset = "Accept-Charset";     ///<summary>Acceptable encodings. See HTTP compression.</summary>     public const string AcceptEncoding = "Accept-Encoding";     ///<summary>Acceptable languages for response</summary>     public const string AcceptLanguage = "Accept-Language";     ///<summary>Acceptable version in time</summary>     public const string AcceptDatetime = "Accept-Datetime";     ///<summary>Authentication credentials for HTTP authentication</summary>     public const string Authorization = "Authorization";     ///<summary>Used to specify directives that MUST be obeyed by all caching mechanisms along the request/response chain</summary>     public const string CacheControl = "Cache-Control";     ///<summary>What type of connection the user-agent would prefer</summary>     public const string Connection = "Connection";     ///<summary>an HTTP cookie previously sent by the server with Set-Cookie (below)</summary>     public const string Cookie = "Cookie";     ///<summary>The length of the request body in octets (8-bit bytes)</summary>     public const string ContentLength = "Content-Length";     ///<summary>A Base64-encoded binary MD5 sum of the content of the request body</summary>     public const string ContentMD5 = "Content-MD5";     ///<summary>The MIME type of the body of the request (used with POST and PUT requests)</summary>     public const string ContentType = "Content-Type";     ///<summary>The date and time that the message was sent</summary>     public const string Date = "Date";     ///<summary>Indicates that particular server behaviors are required by the client</summary>     public const string Expect = "Expect";     ///<summary>The email address of the user making the request</summary>     public const string From = "From";     ///<summary>The domain name of the server (for virtual hosting), mandatory since HTTP/1.1. Although domain name are specified as case-insensitive[5][6], it is not specified whether the contents of the Host field should be interpreted in a case-insensitive manner[7] and in practice some implementations of virtual hosting interpret the contents of the Host field in a case-sensitive manner.[citation needed]</summary>     public const string Host = "Host";     ///<summary>Only perform the action if the client supplied entity matches the same entity on the server. This is mainly for methods like PUT to only update a resource if it has not been modified since the user last updated it.</summary>     public const string IfMatch = "If-Match";     ///<summary>Allows a 304 Not Modified to be returned if content is unchanged</summary>     public const string IfModifiedSince = "If-Modified-Since";     ///<summary>Allows a 304 Not Modified to be returned if content is unchanged, see HTTP ETag</summary>     public const string IfNoneMatch = "If-None-Match";     ///<summary>If the entity is unchanged, send me the part(s) that I am missing; otherwise, send me the entire new entity</summary>     public const string IfRange = "If-Range";     ///<summary>Only send the response if the entity has not been modified since a specific time.</summary>     public const string IfUnmodifiedSince = "If-Unmodified-Since";     ///<summary>Limit the number of times the message can be forwarded through proxies or gateways.</summary>     public const string MaxForwards = "Max-Forwards";     ///<summary>Implementation-specific headers that may have various effects anywhere along the request-response chain.</summary>     public const string Pragma = "Pragma";     ///<summary>Authorization credentials for connecting to a proxy.</summary>     public const string ProxyAuthorization = "Proxy-Authorization";     ///<summary>Request only part of an entity. Bytes are numbered from 0.</summary>     public const string Range = "Range";     ///<summary>This is the address of the previous web page from which a link to the currently requested page was followed. (The word “referrer” is misspelled in the RFC as well as in most implementations.)</summary>     public const string Referersic = "Referer[sic]";     ///<summary>The transfer encodings the user agent is willing to accept: the same values as for the response header Transfer-Encoding can be used, plus the trailers value (related to the chunked transfer method) to notify the server it expects to receive additional headers (the trailers) after the last, zero-sized, chunk.</summary>     public const string TE = "TE";     ///<summary>Ask the server to upgrade to another protocol.</summary>     public const string Upgrade = "Upgrade";     ///<summary>The user agent string of the user agent</summary>     public const string UserAgent = "User-Agent";     ///<summary>Informs the server of proxies through which the request was sent.</summary>     public const string Via = "Via";     ///<summary>A general warning about possible problems with the entity body.</summary>     public const string Warning = "Warning";     ///<summary>Contains the original source address of the request.</summary>     public const string XForwardedFor = "X-Forwarded-For"; } 

Response Headers

/// <summary> /// Contains the standard set of headers applicable to an HTTP response. /// </summary> public static class HttpResponseHeaders {     ///<summary>What partial content range types this server supports</summary>     public const string AcceptRanges = "Accept-Ranges";     ///<summary>The age the object has been in a proxy cache in seconds</summary>     public const string Age = "Age";     ///<summary>Valid actions for a specified resource. To be used for a 405 Method not allowed</summary>     public const string Allow = "Allow";     ///<summary>Tells all caching mechanisms from server to client whether they may cache this object. It is measured in seconds</summary>     public const string CacheControl = "Cache-Control";     ///<summary>Options that are desired for the connection[17]</summary>     public const string Connection = "Connection";     ///<summary>The type of encoding used on the data. See HTTP compression.</summary>     public const string ContentEncoding = "Content-Encoding";     ///<summary>The language the content is in</summary>     public const string ContentLanguage = "Content-Language";     ///<summary>The length of the response body in octets (8-bit bytes)</summary>     public const string ContentLength = "Content-Length";     ///<summary>An alternate location for the returned data</summary>     public const string ContentLocation = "Content-Location";     ///<summary>A Base64-encoded binary MD5 sum of the content of the response</summary>     public const string ContentMD5 = "Content-MD5";     ///<summary>An opportunity to raise a File Download dialogue box for a known MIME type with binary format or suggest a filename for dynamic content. Quotes are necessary with special characters.</summary>     public const string ContentDisposition = "Content-Disposition";     ///<summary>Where in a full body message this partial message belongs</summary>     public const string ContentRange = "Content-Range";     ///<summary>The MIME type of this content</summary>     public const string ContentType = "Content-Type";     ///<summary>The date and time that the message was sent</summary>     public const string Date = "Date";     ///<summary>An identifier for a specific version of a resource, often a message digest</summary>     public const string ETag = "ETag";     ///<summary>Gives the date/time after which the response is considered stale</summary>     public const string Expires = "Expires";     ///<summary>The last modified date for the requested object, inRFC 2822 format</summary>     public const string LastModified = "Last-Modified";     ///<summary>Used to express a typed relationship with another resource, where the relation type is defined by RFC 5988</summary>     public const string Link = "Link";     ///<summary>Used in redirection, or when a new resource has been created.</summary>     public const string Location = "Location";     ///<summary>This header is supposed to set P3P policy, in the form of P3P:CP=your_compact_policy. However, P3P did not take off,[22] most browsers have never fully implemented it, a lot of websites set this header with fake policy text, that was enough to fool browsers the existence of P3P policy and grant permissions for third party cookies.</summary>     public const string P3P = "P3P";     ///<summary>Implementation-specific headers that may have various effects anywhere along the request-response chain.</summary>     public const string Pragma = "Pragma";     ///<summary>Request authentication to access the proxy.</summary>     public const string ProxyAuthenticate = "Proxy-Authenticate";     ///<summary>Used in redirection, or when a new resource has been created. This refresh redirects after 5 seconds. This is a proprietary, non-standard header extension introduced by Netscape and supported by most web browsers.</summary>     public const string Refresh = "Refresh";     ///<summary>If an entity is temporarily unavailable, this instructs the client to try again after a specified period of time (seconds).</summary>     public const string RetryAfter = "Retry-After";     ///<summary>A name for the server</summary>     public const string Server = "Server";     ///<summary>an HTTP cookie</summary>     public const string SetCookie = "Set-Cookie";     ///<summary>A HSTS Policy informing the HTTP client how long to cache the HTTPS only policy and whether this applies to subdomains.</summary>     public const string StrictTransportSecurity = "Strict-Transport-Security";     ///<summary>The Trailer general field value indicates that the given set of header fields is present in the trailer of a message encoded with chunked transfer-coding.</summary>     public const string Trailer = "Trailer";     ///<summary>The form of encoding used to safely transfer the entity to the user. Currently defined methods are:chunked, compress, deflate, gzip, identity.</summary>     public const string TransferEncoding = "Transfer-Encoding";     ///<summary>Tells downstream proxies how to match future request headers to decide whether the cached response can be used rather than requesting a fresh one from the origin server.</summary>     public const string Vary = "Vary";     ///<summary>Informs the client of proxies through which the response was sent.</summary>     public const string Via = "Via";     ///<summary>A general warning about possible problems with the entity body.</summary>     public const string Warning = "Warning";     ///<summary>Indicates the authentication scheme that should be used to access the requested entity.</summary>     public const string WWWAuthenticate = "WWW-Authenticate";        }