Http-request headers

General
1

The terms of service for the API I'm accessing, yr.no say, amongst other requirements:

All requests must (if possible) include an identifying User Agent-string (UA) in the request with the application/domain name, optionally version number. You should also include a company email address or a link to the company website where we can find contact information. If we cannot contact you in case of problems, you risk being blocked without warning.
Examples of valid User-Agents:
"acmeweathersite.com support@acmeweathersite.com"
"AcmeWeatherApp/0.9 github.com/acmeweatherapp"

I think I can comply with this by setting msg.headers to

{
   "User-Agent":"Node-RED test / me@mymail.com",
   "If-Modified-Since":"foobar"
}
  1. Is this the right syntax to set the headers?
  2. Is there any way to see the outgoing request with all of it's headers?
2

Should be enough to do this in the UI

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To check the headers - you can send the request to your own endpoint URL and use a debug set to show full message.

endpoint

http-in URL=/dummy -------> http-response
                   |-------> debug
3

Thanks Steve.

Clarifying for my future reference:

Creating an endpoint: that's just an http-in node with URL /dummy
And the http-request to call it has URL http://localhost:1880/dummy

The request times out because I have not coded an html response & matching http-out node, but the debug shows

{
    "user-agent":"\"Node-RED me@here.com\"",
    "if-modified-since":"foobar",
    "host":"localhost:1880",
    "connection":"keep-alive"
}

I assume that the lower case header property names will not be an issue.

:+1: