webRequest.HttpHeaders

An array of HTTP headers. Each header is represented as an object with two properties: name and either value or binaryValue.

Type

An array of objects. Each object has the following properties:

name
string. Name of the HTTP header.
valueOptional
string. Value of the HTTP header if it can be represented by UTF-8. Either this property or binaryValue must be present.
binaryValueOptional
array of integer. Value of the HTTP header if it cannot be represented by UTF-8, represented as bytes (0..255). Either this property or value must be present.

Browser compatibility

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Acknowledgements

This API is based on Chromium's chrome.webRequest API. This documentation is derived from web_request.json in the Chromium code.

Microsoft Edge compatibility data is supplied by Microsoft Corporation and is included here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.