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HTTP headers let the client and the server pass additional information with a message in a request or response. In HTTP/1.X, a header is a case-insensitive name followed by a colon, then optional whitespace which will be ignored, and finally by its value (for example: Allow: POST ). In HTTP/2 and above, headers are displayed in lowercase when viewed in developer tools ( accept: */* ), and prefixed with a colon for a special group of pseudo-headers ( :status: 200 ). You can find more information on the syntax in each protocol version in the HTTP messages page.

Custom proprietary headers have historically been used with an X- prefix, but this convention was deprecated in 2012 because of the inconveniences it caused when nonstandard fields became standard in RFC 6648 ; others are listed in the IANA HTTP Field Name Registry , whose original content was defined in RFC 4229 . The IANA registry lists headers, including information about their status .

Headers can be grouped according to their contexts:

Request headers

Contain more information about the resource to be fetched, or about the client requesting the resource.

Response headers

Hold additional information about the response, like its location or about the server providing it.

Representation headers

Contain information about the body of the resource, like its MIME type , or encoding/compression applied.

Payload headers

Contain representation-independent information about payload data, including content length and the encoding used for transport.

Headers can also be grouped according to how proxies handle them:

End-to-end headers

These headers must be transmitted to the final recipient of the message: the server for a request, or the client for a response. Intermediate proxies must retransmit these headers unmodified and caches must store them.

Hop-by-hop headers

These headers are meaningful only for a single transport-level connection, and must not be retransmitted by proxies or cached. Note that only hop-by-hop headers may be set using the Connection header.

In this article

  • Authentication
  • Caching
  • Conditionals
  • Connection management
  • Content negotiation
  • Controls
  • Cookies
  • CORS
  • Downloads
  • Integrity digests
  • Integrity policy
  • Message body information
  • Preferences
  • Proxies
  • Range requests
  • Redirects
  • Request context
  • Response context
  • Security
  • Server-sent events
  • Transfer coding
  • WebSockets
  • Other
  • Experimental headers
  • Non-standard headers
  • Deprecated headers
  • See also
  • WWW-Authenticate

    Defines the authentication method that should be used to access a resource.

    Authorization

    Contains the credentials to authenticate a user-agent with a server.

    Proxy-Authenticate

    Defines the authentication method that should be used to access a resource behind a proxy server.

    Proxy-Authorization

    Contains the credentials to authenticate a user agent with a proxy server.

    Caching

    The time, in seconds, that the object has been in a proxy cache.

    Cache-Control

    Directives for caching mechanisms in both requests and responses.

    Clear-Site-Data

    Clears browsing data (e.g., cookies, storage, cache) associated with the requesting website.

    Expires

    The date/time after which the response is considered stale.

    Last-Modified

    The last modification date of the resource, used to compare several versions of the same resource. It is less accurate than ETag , but easier to calculate in some environments. Conditional requests using If-Modified-Since and If-Unmodified-Since use this value to change the behavior of the request.

    A unique string identifying the version of the resource. Conditional requests using If-Match and If-None-Match use this value to change the behavior of the request.

    If-Match

    Makes the request conditional, and applies the method only if the stored resource matches one of the given ETags.

    If-None-Match

    Makes the request conditional, and applies the method only if the stored resource doesn't match any of the given ETags. This is used to update caches (for safe requests), or to prevent uploading a new resource when one already exists.

    If-Modified-Since

    Makes the request conditional, and expects the resource to be transmitted only if it has been modified after the given date. This is used to transmit data only when the cache is out of date.

    If-Unmodified-Since

    Makes the request conditional, and expects the resource to be transmitted only if it has not been modified after the given date. This ensures the coherence of a new fragment of a specific range with previous ones, or to implement an optimistic concurrency control system when modifying existing documents.

    Determines how to match request headers to decide whether a cached response can be used rather than requesting a fresh one from the origin server.

    Connection management

    Connection

    Controls whether the network connection stays open after the current transaction finishes.

    Keep-Alive

    Controls how long a persistent connection should stay open.

    Content negotiation

    For more details, refer to the Content negotiation article .

    Accept

    Informs the server about the types of data that can be sent back.

    Accept-Encoding

    The encoding algorithm, usually a compression algorithm , that can be used on the resource sent back.

    Accept-Language

    Informs the server about the human language the server is expected to send back. This is a hint and is not necessarily under the full control of the user: the server should always pay attention not to override an explicit user choice (like selecting a language from a dropdown).

    Accept-Patch

    A request content negotiation response header that advertises which media type the server is able to understand in a PATCH request.

    Accept-Post

    A request content negotiation response header that advertises which media type the server is able to understand in a POST request.

    Controls

    Expect

    Indicates expectations that need to be fulfilled by the server to properly handle the request.

    Max-Forwards

    When using TRACE , indicates the maximum number of hops the request can do before being reflected to the sender.

    Cookies

    Contains stored HTTP cookies previously sent by the server with the Set-Cookie header.

    Send cookies from the server to the user-agent.

    For more information, refer to the CORS documentation .

    Access-Control-Allow-Credentials

    Indicates whether the response to the request can be exposed when the credentials flag is true.

    Access-Control-Allow-Headers

    Used in response to a preflight request to indicate which HTTP headers can be used when making the actual request.

    Access-Control-Allow-Methods

    Specifies the methods allowed when accessing the resource in response to a preflight request.

    Access-Control-Allow-Origin

    Indicates whether the response can be shared.

    Access-Control-Expose-Headers

    Indicates which headers can be exposed as part of the response by listing their names.

    Access-Control-Max-Age

    Indicates how long the results of a preflight request can be cached.

    Access-Control-Request-Headers

    Used when issuing a preflight request to let the server know which HTTP headers will be used when the actual request is made.

    Access-Control-Request-Method

    Used when issuing a preflight request to let the server know which HTTP method will be used when the actual request is made.

    Origin

    Indicates where a fetch originates from.

    Timing-Allow-Origin

    Specifies origins that are allowed to see values of attributes retrieved via features of the Resource Timing API , which would otherwise be reported as zero due to cross-origin restrictions.

    Downloads

    Content-Disposition

    Indicates if the resource transmitted should be displayed inline (default behavior without the header), or if it should be handled like a download and the browser should present a "Save As" dialog.

    Integrity digests

    Content-Digest Experimental

    Provides a digest of the stream of octets framed in an HTTP message (the message content) dependent on Content-Encoding and Content-Range .

    Repr-Digest Experimental

    Provides a digest of the selected representation of the target resource before transmission. Unlike the Content-Digest , the digest does not consider Content-Encoding or Content-Range .

    Want-Content-Digest Experimental

    States the wish for a Content-Digest header. It is the Content- analogue of Want-Repr-Digest .

    Want-Repr-Digest Experimental

    States the wish for a Repr-Digest header. It is the Repr- analogue of Want-Content-Digest .

    Integrity policy

    Integrity-Policy

    Ensures that all resources the user agent loads (of a certain type) have Subresource Integrity guarantees.

    Integrity-Policy-Report-Only

    Reports on resources that the user agent loads that would violate Subresource Integrity guarantees if the integrity policy were enforced (using the Integrity-Policy header).

    Message body information

    Content-Length

    The size of the resource, in decimal number of bytes.

    Content-Type

    Indicates the media type of the resource.

    Content-Encoding

    Used to specify the compression algorithm.

    Content-Language

    Describes the human language(s) intended for the audience, so that it allows a user to differentiate according to the users' own preferred language.

    Content-Location

    Indicates an alternate location for the returned data.

    Preferences

    Preferences can be sent by clients in requests to indicate optional behaviors for requests and responses. The server response may indicate if a preference is applied, in cases where it would otherwise be ambiguous for the client. Browsers have no native handling for sending preferences via these headers; they are used in custom, implementation-specific clients.

    Prefer

    Indicates preferences for specific server behaviors during request processing. For example, it can request minimal response content ( return=minimal ) or asynchronous processing ( respond-async ). The server processes the request normally if the header is unsupported.

    Preference-Applied

    Informs the client which preferences specified in the Prefer header were applied by the server. It is a response-only header providing transparency about preference handling.

    Proxies

    Forwarded

    Contains information from the client-facing side of proxy servers that is altered or lost when a proxy is involved in the path of the request.

    Added by proxies, both forward and reverse proxies, and can appear in the request headers and the response headers.

    Range requests

    HTTP range requests allow the client to request a portion of a resource from the server. Range requests are useful for applications like media players that support random access, data tools that know they need only part of a large file, and download managers that let the user pause and resume a download.

    Accept-Ranges

    Indicates if the server supports range requests, and if so in which unit the range can be expressed.

    Range

    Indicates the part of a document that the server should return.

    If-Range

    Creates a conditional range request that is only fulfilled if the given etag or date matches the remote resource. Used to prevent downloading two ranges from incompatible version of the resource.

    Content-Range

    Indicates where in a full body message a partial message belongs.

    Redirects

    Location

    Indicates the URL to redirect a page to.

    Refresh

    Directs the browser to reload the page or redirect to another. Takes the same value as the meta element with http-equiv="refresh" .

    Request context

    Contains an Internet email address for a human user who controls the requesting user agent.

    Specifies the domain name of the server (for virtual hosting), and (optionally) the TCP port number on which the server is listening.

    Referer

    The address of the previous web page from which a link to the currently requested page was followed.

    Referrer-Policy

    Governs which referrer information sent in the Referer header should be included with requests made.

    User-Agent

    Contains a characteristic string that allows the network protocol peers to identify the application type, operating system, software vendor or software version of the requesting software user agent.

    Response context

    Allow

    Lists the set of HTTP request methods supported by a resource.

    Server

    Contains information about the software used by the origin server to handle the request.

    Security

    Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy (COEP)

    Allows a server to declare an embedder policy for a given document.

    Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy (COOP)

    Prevents other domains from opening/controlling a window.

    Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy (CORP)

    Prevents other domains from reading the response of the resources to which this header is applied. See also CORP explainer article .

    Content-Security-Policy ( CSP )

    Controls resources the user agent is allowed to load for a given page.

    Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only

    Allows web developers to experiment with policies by monitoring, but not enforcing, their effects. These violation reports consist of JSON documents sent via an HTTP POST request to the specified URI.

    Expect-CT Deprecated

    Lets sites opt in to reporting and enforcement of Certificate Transparency to detect use of misissued certificates for that site.

    Permissions-Policy

    Provides a mechanism to allow and deny the use of browser features in a website's own frame, and in <iframe> s that it embeds.

    Reporting-Endpoints Experimental

    Response header that allows website owners to specify one or more endpoints used to receive errors such as CSP violation reports, Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy reports, or other generic violations.

    Strict-Transport-Security ( HSTS )

    Force communication using HTTPS instead of HTTP.

    Upgrade-Insecure-Requests

    Sends a signal to the server expressing the client's preference for an encrypted and authenticated response, and that it can successfully handle the upgrade-insecure-requests directive.

    X-Content-Type-Options

    Disables MIME sniffing and forces browser to use the type given in Content-Type .

    X-Frame-Options (XFO)

    Indicates whether a browser should be allowed to render a page in a <frame> , <iframe> , <embed> or <object> .

    X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies

    A cross-domain policy file may grant clients, such as Adobe Acrobat or Apache Flex (among others), permission to handle data across domains that would otherwise be restricted due to the Same-Origin Policy . The X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies header overrides such policy files so that clients still block unwanted requests.

    X-Powered-By

    May be set by hosting environments or other frameworks and contains information about them while not providing any usefulness to the application or its visitors. Unset this header to avoid exposing potential vulnerabilities.

    X-XSS-Protection

    Enables cross-site scripting filtering.

    Fetch metadata request headers

    Fetch metadata request headers provide information about the context from which the request originated. A server can use them to make decisions about whether a request should be allowed, based on where the request came from and how the resource will be used.

    Sec-Fetch-Site

    Indicates the relationship between a request initiator's origin and its target's origin. It is a Structured Header whose value is a token with possible values cross-site , same-origin , same-site , and none .

    Sec-Fetch-Mode

    Indicates the request's mode to a server. It is a Structured Header whose value is a token with possible values cors , navigate , no-cors , same-origin , and websocket .

    Sec-Fetch-User

    Indicates whether or not a navigation request was triggered by user activation. It is a Structured Header whose value is a boolean so possible values are ?0 for false and ?1 for true.

    Sec-Fetch-Dest

    Indicates the request's destination. It is a Structured Header whose value is a token with possible values audio , audioworklet , document , embed , empty , font , image , manifest , object , paintworklet , report , script , serviceworker , sharedworker , style , track , video , worker , and xslt .

    The following request headers are not strictly "fetch metadata request headers", but similarly provide information about the context of how a resource will be used. A server might use them to modify its caching behavior, or the information that is returned:

    Sec-Purpose

    Indicates the purpose of the request, when the purpose is something other than immediate use by the user-agent. The header currently has one possible value, prefetch , which indicates that the resource is being fetched preemptively for a possible future navigation.

    Service-Worker-Navigation-Preload

    A request header sent in preemptive request to fetch() a resource during service worker boot. The value, which is set with NavigationPreloadManager.setHeaderValue() , can be used to inform a server that a different resource should be returned than in a normal fetch() operation.

    Server-sent events

    Reporting-Endpoints

    Response header used to specify server endpoints where the browser should send warning and error reports when using the Reporting API .

    Report-To Deprecated Non-standard

    Response header used to specify server endpoints where the browser should send warning and error reports when using the Reporting API .

    Transfer coding

    Transfer-Encoding

    Specifies the form of encoding used to safely transfer the resource to the user.

    Specifies the transfer encodings the user agent is willing to accept.

    Trailer

    Allows the sender to include additional fields at the end of chunked message.

    WebSockets

    Headers used by the WebSockets API in the WebSocket handshake :

    Sec-WebSocket-Accept

    Response header that indicates that the server is willing to upgrade to a WebSocket connection.

    Sec-WebSocket-Extensions

    In requests, this header indicates the WebSocket extensions supported by the client in preferred order. In responses, it indicates the extension selected by the server from the client's preferences.

    Sec-WebSocket-Key

    Request header containing a key that verifies that the client explicitly intends to open a WebSocket .

    Sec-WebSocket-Protocol

    In requests, this header indicates the sub-protocols supported by the client in preferred order. In responses, it indicates the sub-protocol selected by the server from the client's preferences.

    Sec-WebSocket-Version

    In requests, this header indicates the version of the WebSocket protocol used by the client. In responses, it is sent only if the requested protocol version is not supported by the server, and lists the versions that the server supports.

    Other

    Alt-Svc

    Used to list alternate ways to reach this service.

    Alt-Used

    Used to identify the alternative service in use.

    Contains the date and time at which the message was originated.

    This entity-header field provides a means for serializing one or more links in HTTP headers. It is semantically equivalent to the HTML <link> element.

    Retry-After

    Indicates how long the user agent should wait before making a follow-up request.

    Server-Timing

    Communicates one or more metrics and descriptions for the given request-response cycle.

    Service-Worker

    Included in fetches for a service worker's script resource. This header helps administrators log service worker script requests for monitoring purposes.

    Service-Worker-Allowed

    Used to remove the path restriction by including this header in the response of the Service Worker script .

    SourceMap

    Links to a source map so that debuggers can step through original source code instead of generated or transformed code.

    Upgrade

    This HTTP/1.1 (only) header can be used to upgrade an already established client/server connection to a different protocol (over the same transport protocol). For example, it can be used by a client to upgrade a connection from HTTP 1.1 to HTTP 2.0, or an HTTP or HTTPS connection into a WebSocket.

    Priority

    Provides a hint from about the priority of a particular resource request on a particular connection. The value can be sent in a request to indicate the client priority, or in a response if the server chooses to reprioritize the request.

    Experimental headers

    Attribution reporting headers

    The Attribution Reporting API enables developers to measure conversions — for example when a user clicks an ad embedded on one site and then proceeds to purchase the item over on the vendor's site — and then access reports on those conversions. It does this without relying on third-party tracking cookies, instead relying on various headers to register sources and triggers that are matched to indicate a conversion.

    Attribution-Reporting-Eligible

    Used to indicate that the response corresponding to the current request is eligible to take part in attribution reporting, by registering either an attribution source or trigger.

    Attribution-Reporting-Register-Source

    Included as part of a response to a request that included an Attribution-Reporting-Eligible header, this is used to register an attribution source.

    Attribution-Reporting-Register-Trigger

    Included as part of a response to a request that included an Attribution-Reporting-Eligible header, this is used to register an attribution trigger.

    Client hints

    HTTP Client hints are a set of request headers that provide useful information about the client such as device type and network conditions, and allow servers to optimize what is served for those conditions.

    Servers proactively requests the client hint headers they are interested in from the client using Accept-CH . The client may then choose to include the requested headers in subsequent requests.

    Accept-CH

    Servers can advertise support for Client Hints using the Accept-CH header field or an equivalent HTML <meta> element with http-equiv attribute.

    Critical-CH Experimental

    Servers use Critical-CH along with Accept-CH to specify that accepted client hints are also critical client hints .

    The different categories of client hints are listed below.

    User agent client hints

    The UA client hints are request headers that provide information about the user agent, the platform/architecture it is running on, and user preferences set on the user agent or platform:

    Sec-CH-UA Experimental

    User agent's branding and version.

    Sec-CH-UA-Arch Experimental

    User agent's underlying platform architecture.

    Sec-CH-UA-Bitness Experimental

    User agent's underlying CPU architecture bitness (for example "64" bit).

    Sec-CH-UA-Form-Factors Experimental

    User agent's form-factors, describing how the user interacts with the user-agent.

    Sec-CH-UA-Full-Version Deprecated

    User agent's full version string.

    Sec-CH-UA-Full-Version-List Experimental

    Full version for each brand in the user agent's brand list.

    Sec-CH-UA-Mobile Experimental

    User agent is running on a mobile device or, more generally, prefers a "mobile" user experience.

    Sec-CH-UA-Model Experimental

    User agent's device model.

    Sec-CH-UA-Platform Experimental

    User agent's underlying operation system/platform.

    Sec-CH-UA-Platform-Version Experimental

    User agent's underlying operation system version.

    Sec-CH-UA-WoW64 Experimental

    Whether or not the user agent binary is running in 32-bit mode on 64-bit Windows.

    Sec-CH-Prefers-Color-Scheme Experimental

    User's preference of dark or light color scheme.

    Sec-CH-Prefers-Reduced-Motion Experimental

    User's preference to see fewer animations and content layout shifts.

    Sec-CH-Prefers-Reduced-Transparency Experimental

    Request header indicates the user agent's preference for reduced transparency.

    Note: User-agent client hints are not available inside fenced frames because they rely on permissions policy delegation, which could be used to leak data.

    Device client hints

    Content-DPR Deprecated Non-standard

    Response header used to confirm the image device to pixel ratio (DPR) in requests where the screen DPR client hint was used to select an image resource.

    Device-Memory

    Approximate amount of available client RAM memory. This is part of the Device Memory API .

    Deprecated Non-standard

    Request header that provides the client device pixel ratio (the number of physical device pixels for each CSS pixel ).

    Viewport-Width Deprecated Non-standard

    Request header provides the client's layout viewport width in CSS pixels .

    Width Deprecated Non-standard

    Request header indicates the desired resource width in physical pixels (the intrinsic size of an image).

    Network client hints

    Network client hints allow a server to choose what information is sent based on the user choice and network bandwidth and latency.

    Save-Data Experimental

    A string on that indicates the user agent's preference for reduced data usage.

    Compression Dictionary Transport

    Compression Dictionary Transport is a way of using a shared compression dictionary to reduce the transport size of HTTP responses rather than using the standard static dictionary in Brotli compression or Zstandard compression .

    Available-Dictionary Experimental

    A browser can use this request header to indicate the best dictionary it has available for the server to use for compression.

    Dictionary-ID Experimental

    Used when a browser already has a dictionary available for a resource and the server provided an id for the dictionary in the Use-As-Dictionary header. Requests for resources that can use the dictionary have an Available-Dictionary header and the server-provided dictionary id in the Dictionary-ID header.

    Use-As-Dictionary Experimental

    Lists the matching criteria that the dictionary can be used for in future requests.

    Privacy

    Deprecated Non-standard

    Request header that indicates the user's tracking preference (Do Not Track). Deprecated in favor of Global Privacy Control (GPC), which is communicated to servers using the Sec-GPC header, and accessible to clients via navigator.globalPrivacyControl .

    Deprecated Non-standard

    Response header that indicates the tracking status that applied to the corresponding request. Used in conjunction with DNT.

    Sec-GPC Non-standard Experimental

    Indicates whether the user consents to a website or service selling or sharing their personal information with third parties.

    Security

    Origin-Agent-Cluster Experimental

    Response header used to indicate that the associated Document should be placed in an origin-keyed agent cluster . This isolation allows user agents to allocate implementation-specific resources for agent clusters, such as processes or threads, more efficiently.

    Server-sent events

    Experimental

    Defines a mechanism that enables developers to declare a network error reporting policy.

    Topics API

    The Topics API provides a mechanism for developers to implement use cases such as interest-based advertising (IBA). See the Topics API documentation for more information.

    Observe-Browsing-Topics Experimental Non-standard

    Response header used to mark topics of interest inferred from a calling site's URL as observed in the response to a request generated by a feature that enables the Topics API .

    Sec-Browsing-Topics Experimental Non-standard

    Request header that sends the selected topics for the current user along with the associated request, which are used by an ad tech platform to choose a personalized ad to display.

    Other

    Accept-Signature Experimental

    A client can send the Accept-Signature header field to indicate intention to take advantage of any available signatures and to indicate what kinds of signatures it supports.

    Early-Data Experimental

    Indicates that the request has been conveyed in TLS early data.

    Set-Login Experimental

    Response header sent by a federated identity provider (IdP) to set its login status, meaning whether any users are logged into the IdP on the current browser or not. This is stored by the browser and used by the FedCM API .

    Signature Experimental

    The Signature header field conveys a list of signatures for an exchange, each one accompanied by information about how to determine the authority of and refresh that signature.

    Signed-Headers Experimental

    The Signed-Headers header field identifies an ordered list of response header fields to include in a signature.

    Speculation-Rules Experimental

    Provides a list of URLs pointing to text resources containing speculation rule JSON definitions. When the response is an HTML document, these rules will be added to the document's speculation rule set.

    Sec-Speculation-Tags Experimental

    Contains one or more tag values from the speculation rules that resulted in the speculation so a server can identify which rule(s) caused a speculation and potentially block them.

    Supports-Loading-Mode Experimental

    Set by a navigation target to opt-in to using various higher-risk loading modes. For example, cross-origin, same-site prerendering requires a Supports-Loading-Mode value of credentialed-prerender .

    Non-standard headers

    X-Forwarded-For Non-standard

    Identifies the originating IP addresses of a client connecting to a web server through an HTTP proxy or a load balancer.

    X-Forwarded-Host Non-standard

    Identifies the original host requested that a client used to connect to your proxy or load balancer.

    X-Forwarded-Proto Non-standard

    Identifies the protocol (HTTP or HTTPS) that a client used to connect to your proxy or load balancer.

    X-DNS-Prefetch-Control Non-standard

    Controls DNS prefetching, a feature by which browsers proactively perform domain name resolution on both links that the user may choose to follow as well as URLs for items referenced by the document, including images, CSS, JavaScript, and so forth.

    X-Robots-Tag Non-standard

    The X-Robots-Tag HTTP header is used to indicate how a web page is to be indexed within public search engine results. The header is equivalent to <meta name="robots"> elements.

    Deprecated headers

    Pragma Deprecated

    Implementation-specific header that may have various effects anywhere along the request-response chain. Used for backwards compatibility with HTTP/1.0 caches where the Cache-Control header is not yet present.

    Warning Deprecated

    General warning information about possible problems.

    See also

  • Wikipedia page on List of HTTP headers
  • IANA registry
  • HTTP Working Group
  •