How to add and get Header values in WebApi

Question

I need to create a POST method in WebApi so I can send data from application to WebApi method. I\'m not able to get header value.

Here I have added header values in

Answer 1

For WEB API 2.0:

I had to use Request.Content.Headers instead of Request.Headers

and then i declared an extestion as below

  /// 

    /// Returns an individual HTTP Header value
    /// 
    /// 
    /// 
    /// 
    public static string GetHeader(this HttpContentHeaders headers, string key, string defaultValue)
    {
        IEnumerable keys = null;
        if (!headers.TryGetValues(key, out keys))
            return defaultValue;

        return keys.First();
    }

And then i invoked it by this way.

  var headerValue = Request.Content.Headers.GetHeader("custom-header-key", "default-value");

I hope it might be helpful