HTTP Headers

Abstract

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• Contains information used for Authentication

• And information like Cookie

  
  

• Inspect the HTTP Headers with curl

curl -I <ENDPOINT>

• Set HTTP Header with curl

curl -H "ngrok-skip-browser-warning: anyValue" <ENDPOINT>

Content-Type

• Tells the Client the type of the Network Object, so they can be better rendered
• With the below info, the browser is able to open an in-browser pdf reader

content-type: application/pdf

Cache-Control

• Tells the Client how long it can use the cached copy of the resources (can be css and js files etc) before it fetches a new copy from Server

cache-control: public, max-age=7200, must-revalidate

• You can set adjust the this value with Cloudflare Cache Rules if you are hosting your website on Cloudflare
• If you want to apply cache-control to all website you have on Cloudflare. You can configure it on Cloudflare Caching Configuration