Add default headers for every request in httpie

Question

I need to be able to either set in my httpie/config.json file to include some default headers (these are custom headers and not normal ones) to every request that i send from httpie by default (ALWAYS)

ie: headers examples

http "http://poopskiesuprise.com" 'CUSTOM_HEADER:asdf' 'HEADER_TWO:asdf'

always include the 'CUSTOM_HEADER' and 'HEADER_TWO' to every request so i can just do this

http "http://poopskiesuprise.com"

i did not see a good way to do this in the documentation so any help would be great!

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 01 '22 at 14:43

The easiest solution is creating a session with desired headers, and using it on your config.json:

Create a session (for your desired host):

$ http --session ./session.json pie.dev/get X-Custom-Header:value X-Custom-Header2:value2

and then add this to your config (~/.config/httpie/config.json on POSIX):

{
    "default_options": [
        "--session-read-only=/path/to/session.json"
    ]
}

and then from now on, every request will add those two headers:

$ http pie.dev/get

{
    "args": {},
    "headers": {
        "X-Custom-Header": "value",
        "X-Custom-Header2": "value2"
    },
    "url": "http://pie.dev/get"
}

Unless you unset them:

$ http pie.dev/get X-Custom-Header:

{
    "args": {},
    "headers": {
        "X-Custom-Header2": "value2"
    },
    "url": "http://pie.dev/get"
}

Add default headers for every request in httpie

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