# Customizing POST headers

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By itself, the XHTTPF\_REQPOST flag will generate a standard set of headers to accompany the specified request, e.g.:

POST /my/web/service HTTP/1.1

Host: mydomain.com

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ansi"

Content-Length: 84



<body of request here>



But let's suppose you don't like the auto-generated Content-Type, and want to add your own Authorization line. You can do this by modifying your request file (we're assuming XHTTPF\_FILEREQ) to add the desired headers at top, separated from your request body by a blank line, and then add the XHTTPF\_HDRBODY flag. (Note: this is a slightly different situation than the previous example using XHTTPF\_REQUPLOAD; in that case the Content-Type and name header for the individually uploaded files could be addressed via special syntax in the _request _parameter. In this case we are changing the main header for the entire request.) For example:

Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8

Authorization: Basic YWdlYmFwaTpCN2VyQDhhYw==



<body of request here>



Submitting the above file, using XHTTPF\_REQPOST + XHTTPF\_HDRBODY + XHTTPF\_FILEREQ would result in the auto-generated Content-Type line being changed to the one specified in our request file, and the Authorization line we specified being added, as follows:

POST /my/web/service HTTP/1.1

Host: mydomain.com

Content-Type: application/json; charset="utf-8"

Authorization: Basic YWdlYmFwaTpCN2VyQDhhYw==

Content-Length: 84



<body of request here>