Add Response Headers to ASP.NET Core Middleware

Question

I want to add a processing time middleware to my ASP.NET Core WebApi like this

public class ProcessingTimeMiddleware  
{
    private readonly RequestDelegate         


        

Answer 1

In your example headers already sent, when execution reaches context.Response.Headers.Add(...) statement.

You can try:

public async Task Invoke(HttpContext context)
{
    var watch = new Stopwatch();
    context.Response.OnSendingHeaders(x =>
    {
        watch.Stop();
        context.Response.Headers.Add("X-Processing-Time-Milliseconds", new[] { watch.ElapsedMilliseconds.ToString() });
    }, null);

    watch.Start();
    await _next(context);
    watch.Stop();
}