Request Headers
Learn how to manage HTTP request headers in AWS API Gateway, including standard and custom headers. Understand patterns for adding headers from query parameters, path variables, or hardcoded values. Discover how to securely integrate third-party APIs by using custom headers for authentication, and see practical examples with live API requests and AWS console configuration.
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HTTP request headers
The headers are a part of the data passed from the client to the server. We have some standard HTTP headers, and we can have custom headers that go with our request. API Gateway allows us to play with these values as we map the data during API integration. For example, we can add headers based on the values in the path/query parameters or from the payload body, or we can also hardcode the value for new headers.
Custom headers
This pattern is handy when we want to pass metadata ...