Issue
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I’m trying to integrate my service with third-party service. The service returns me a file with Content-Type
and Content-Disposition
headers. I expected the headers will be returned in HttpResponseMessage.Headers
, but I got’em in HttpResponseMessage.Content.Headers
Why are some type of headers could be returned in HttpResponseMessage.Headers
and some other types in HttpResponseMessage.Content.Headers
?
Solution
Request headers and content headers have different purposes.
While request headers carry information about request itself and about client (caller), content headers describe “entity” or its metadata.
Have a look at sample http request:
POST /some/url HTTP/1.1
Host: someHost
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36
request Accept: application/json, text/plain, */*
headers Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: url
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----------564564546545645
Content-Length: 462560
------------564564546545645
content Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="1.png"
headers Content-Type: image/png
.PNG
......................;
------------564564546545645
Answered by Aleksey L.
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