How to access custom HTTP request headers on Django Rest Framework?

The name of the meta data attribute of request is in upper case:

print request.META

Your header will be available as:

request.META['HTTP_X_MYHEADER']

Or:

request.META.get('HTTP_X_MYHEADER') # return `None` if no such header

Quote from the documentation:

HTTP headers in the request are converted to META keys by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores and adding an HTTP_ prefix to the name. So, for example, a header called X-Bender would be mapped to the META key HTTP_X_BENDER.

If you provide a valid header information and get that information from backend then follow those

client-name='ABCKD'

then you have get that client information in post or get function following this-

request.META['HTTP_CLIENT_NAME']

it will give you output 'ABCKD'.

remember that, whatever the valid variable name you provide in your header information in request, django convert it uppercase and prefix with 'HTTP_'in here it will client-name converted to CLIENT_NAME and prefix with HTTP_.so final output is HTTP_CLIENT_NAME

Seeing this is an old post, I thought I would share the newer and more flexible approach that is available since Django 2.2. You can use the request's headers object:

# curl --header "X-MyHeader: 123" --data "test=test" http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/update_log/request.headers['X-MYHEADER']       # returns "123"request.headers['x-myheader']       # case-insensitive, returns the samerequest.headers.get('x-myheader')   # returns None if header doesn't exist# standard headers are also available hererequest.headers.get('Content-Type') # returns "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

The biggest differences with request.META are that request.headers doesn't prepend headers with HTTP_, it doesn't transform the header names to UPPER_SNAKE_CASE and that the headers can be accessed case-insensitively. It will only transform the header to Title-Casing (e.g. X-Myheader) when displayed.