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How do I access a page's HTTP response headers via JavaScript?

Related to this question, which was modified to ask about accessing two specific HTTP headers.

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How do I access the HTTP request header fields via JavaScript?

How do I access a page's HTTP response headers via JavaScript?

Related to this question, which was modified to ask about accessing two specific HTTP headers.

Related:
How do I access the HTTP request header fields via JavaScript?

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• 3 @user2284570 — It isn't. this question is about response headers, not request headers. – Quentin Commented Dec 5, 2018 at 17:06
• 1 While you can't ready any headers of HTML response in JS, you can read Server-Timing header, and you can pass arbitrary key-value data through it. See my answer. – jakub.g Commented Feb 15, 2021 at 16:20
• I know this does not answer the question, but could help someone nonetheless. In some situations, where you control the page content and have access to the header data on a server, you could add hidden elements with the desired information. – Charles L. Commented Feb 2, 2022 at 18:42

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It's not possible to read the current headers. You could make another request to the same URL and read its headers, but there is no guarantee that the headers are exactly equal to the current.

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Use the following JavaScript code to get all the HTTP headers by performing a get request:

var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.open('GET', document.location, true);
req.send(null);
req.onload = function() {
  var headers = req.getAllResponseHeaders().toLowerCase();
  console.log(headers);
};

Unfortunately, there isn't an API to give you the HTTP response headers for your initial page request. That was the original question posted here. It has been repeatedly asked, too, because some people would like to get the actual response headers of the original page request without issuing another one.

For AJAX Requests:

If an HTTP request is made over AJAX, it is possible to get the response headers with the getAllResponseHeaders() method. It's part of the XMLHttpRequest API. To see how this can be applied, check out the fetchSimilarHeaders() function below. Note that this is a work-around to the problem that won't be reliable for some applications.

myXMLHttpRequest.getAllResponseHeaders();

• The API was specified in the following candidate recommendation for XMLHttpRequest: XMLHttpRequest - W3C Candidate Recommendation 3 August 2010

• Specifically, the getAllResponseHeaders() method was specified in the following section: w3.org: XMLHttpRequest: the getallresponseheaders() method

• The MDN documentation is good, too: developer.mozilla.org: XMLHttpRequest.

This will not give you information about the original page request's HTTP response headers, but it could be used to make educated guesses about what those headers were. More on that is described next.

Getting header values from the Initial Page Request:

This question was first asked several years ago, asking specifically about how to get at the original HTTP response headers for the current page (i.e. the same page inside of which the javascript was running). This is quite a different question than simply getting the response headers for any HTTP request. For the initial page request, the headers aren't readily available to javascript. Whether the header values you need will be reliably and sufficiently consistent if you request the same page again via AJAX will depend on your particular application.

The following are a few suggestions for getting around that problem.

1. Requests on Resources which are largely static

If the response is largely static and the headers are not expected to change much between requests, you could make an AJAX request for the same page you're currently on and assume that they're they are the same values which were part of the page's HTTP response. This could allow you to access the headers you need using the nice XMLHttpRequest API described above.

function fetchSimilarHeaders (callback) {
    var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
    request.onreadystatechange = function () {
        if (request.readyState === XMLHttpRequest.DONE) {
            //
            // The following headers may often be similar
            // to those of the original page request...
            //
            if (callback && typeof callback === 'function') {
                callback(request.getAllResponseHeaders());
            }
        }
    };

    //
    // Re-request the same page (document.location)
    // We hope to get the same or similar response headers to those which 
    // came with the current page, but we have no guarantee.
    // Since we are only after the headers, a HEAD request may be sufficient.
    //
    request.open('HEAD', document.location, true);
    request.send(null);
}

This approach will be problematic if you truly have to rely on the values being consistent between requests, since you can't fully guarantee that they are the same. It's going to depend on your specific application and whether you know that the value you need is something that won't be changing from one request to the next.

2. Make Inferences

There are some BOM properties (Browser Object Model) which the browser determines by looking at the headers. Some of these properties reflect HTTP headers directly (e.g. navigator.userAgent is set to the value of the HTTP User-Agent header field). By sniffing around the available properties you might be able to find what you need, or some clues to indicate what the HTTP response contained.

3. Stash them

If you control the server side, you can access any header you like as you construct the full response. Values could be passed to the client with the page, stashed in some markup or perhaps in an inlined JSON structure. If you wanted to have every HTTP request header available to your javascript, you could iterate through them on the server and send them back as hidden values in the markup. It's probably not ideal to send header values this way, but you could certainly do it for the specific value you need. This solution is arguably inefficient, too, but it would do the job if you needed it.

(2024) An answer without additional HTTP call (works everywhere except Safari)

While it's not possible in general to read arbitrary HTTP response headers of the top-level HTML navigation, if you control the server (or middleboxes on the way) and want to expose some info to JavaScript that can't be exposed easily in any other way than via a header:

You may use Server-Timing header to expose arbitrary key-value data, and it will be readable by JavaScript.

(*in supported browsers: Firefox 61, Chrome 65, Edge 79; no IE, no Safari yet and no immediate plans for shipping as of 2021.09; although it may be implemented for same-origin JS one day.)

Example:

server-timing: key;desc="value"

• You can use this header multiple times for multiple pieces of data:

server-timing: key1;desc="value1"
server-timing: key2;desc="value2"

• or use its compact version where you expose multiple pieces of data in one header, comma-separated.

server-timing: key1;desc="value1", key2;desc="value2"

Example of how Wikipedia uses this header to expose info about cache hit/miss:

Code example (need to account for lack of browser support in Safari and IE):

if (window.performance && performance.getEntriesByType) { // avoid error in Safari 10, IE9- and other old browsers
    let navTiming = performance.getEntriesByType('navigation')
    if (navTiming.length > 0) { // still not supported as of Safari 14...
        let serverTiming = navTiming[0].serverTiming
        if (serverTiming && serverTiming.length > 0) {
            for (let i=0; i<serverTiming.length; i++) {
                console.log(`${serverTiming[i].name} = ${serverTiming[i].description}`)
            }
        }
    }
}

This logs cache = hit-front in supported browsers.

Notes:

• as mentioned on MDN, the API is only supported over HTTPS
• if your JS is served from another domain, you have to add Timing-Allow-Origin response header to make the data readable to JS (Timing-Allow-Origin: * or Timing-Allow-Origin: https://www.example.com)
• Server-Timing headers support also dur(header) field, readable as duration on JS side, but it's optional and defaults to 0 in JS if not passed
• regarding Safari support: see bug 1 and bug 2 and bug 3
• You can read more on server-timing in this blog post
• Note that performance entries buffers might get cleaned by JS on the page (via an API call), or by the browser, if the page issues too many calls for subresources. For that reason, you should capture the data as soon as possible, and/or use PerformanceObserver API instead. See the blog post for details.

Using XmlHttpRequest you can pull up the current page and then examine the http headers of the response.

Best case is to just do a HEAD request and then examine the headers.

For some examples of doing this have a look at http://www.jibbering.com/2002/4/httprequest.html

Just my 2 cents.

A solution with Service Workers

Service workers are able to access network information, which includes headers. The good part is that it works on any kind of request, not just XMLHttpRequest.

How it works:

1. Add a service worker on your website.
2. Watch every request that's being sent.
3. Make the service worker fetch the request with the respondWith function.
4. When the response arrives, read the headers.
5. Send the headers from the service worker to the page with the postMessage function.

Working example:

Service workers are a bit complicated to understand, so I've built a small library that does all this. It is available on github: https://github.com/gmetais/sw-get-headers.

Limitations:

• the website needs to be on HTTPS
• the browser needs to support the Service Workers API
• the same-domain/cross-domain policies are in action, just like on XMLHttpRequest

Another way to send header information to JavaScript would be through cookies. The server can extract whatever data it needs from the request headers and send them back inside a Set-Cookie response header — and cookies can be read in JavaScript. As keparo says, though, it's best to do this for just one or two headers, rather than for all of them.

For those looking for a way to parse all HTTP headers into an object that can be accessed as a dictionary headers["content-type"], I've created a function parseHttpHeaders:

function parseHttpHeaders(httpHeaders) {
    return httpHeaders.split("\n")
     .map(x=>x.split(/: */,2))
     .filter(x=>x[0])
     .reduce((ac, x)=>{ac[x[0]] = x[1];return ac;}, {});
}

var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.open('GET', document.location, false);
req.send(null);
var headers = parseHttpHeaders(req.getAllResponseHeaders());
// Now we can do:  headers["content-type"]

You can't access the http headers, but some of the information provided in them is available in the DOM. For example, if you want to see the http referer (sic), use document.referrer. There may be others like this for other http headers. Try googling the specific thing you want, like "http referer javascript".

I know this should be obvious, but I kept searching for stuff like "http headers javascript" when all I really wanted was the referer, and didn't get any useful results. I don't know how I didn't realize I could make a more specific query.

Like many people I've been digging the net with no real answer :(

I've nevertheless find out a bypass that could help others. In my case I fully control my web server. In fact it is part of my application (see end reference). It is easy for me to add a script to my http response. I modified my httpd server to inject a small script within every html pages. I only push a extra 'js script' line right after my header construction, that set an existing variable from my document within my browser [I choose location], but any other option is possible. While my server is written in nodejs, I've no doubt that the same technique can be use from PHP or others.

  case ".html":
    response.setHeader("Content-Type", "text/html");
    response.write ("<script>location['GPSD_HTTP_AJAX']=true</script>")
    // process the real contend of my page

Now every html pages loaded from my server, have this script executed by the browser at reception. I can then easily check from JavaScript if the variable exist or not. In my usecase I need to know if I should use JSON or JSON-P profile to avoid CORS issue, but the same technique can be used for other purposes [ie: choose in between development/production server, get from server a REST/API key, etc ....]

On the browser you just need to check variable directly from JavaScript as in my example, where I use it to select my Json/JQuery profile

 // Select direct Ajax/Json profile if using GpsdTracking/HttpAjax server otherwise use JsonP
  var corsbypass = true;  
  if (location['GPSD_HTTP_AJAX']) corsbypass = false;

  if (corsbypass) { // Json & html served from two different web servers
    var gpsdApi = "http://localhost:4080/geojson.rest?jsoncallback=?";
  } else { // Json & html served from same web server [no ?jsoncallback=]
    var gpsdApi = "geojson.rest?";
  }
  var gpsdRqt = 
      {key   :123456789 // user authentication key
      ,cmd   :'list'    // rest command
      ,group :'all'     // group to retreive
      ,round : true     // ask server to round numbers
   };
   $.getJSON(gpsdApi,gpsdRqt, DevListCB);

For who ever would like to check my code: https://www.npmjs.org/package/gpsdtracking

Allain Lalonde's link made my day. Just adding some simple working html code here.
Works with any reasonable browser since ages plus IE9+ and Presto-Opera 12.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<title>(XHR) Show all response headers</title>

<h1>All Response Headers with XHR</h1>
<script>
 var X= new XMLHttpRequest();
 X.open("HEAD", location);
 X.send();
 X.onload= function() { 
   document.body.appendChild(document.createElement("pre")).textContent= X.getAllResponseHeaders();
 }
</script>

Note: You get headers of a second request, the result may differ from the initial request.

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Another way
is the more modern fetch() API
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WindowOrWorkerGlobalScope/fetch
Per caniuse.com it's supported by Firefox 40, Chrome 42, Edge 14, Safari 11
Working example code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<title>fetch() all Response Headers</title>

<h1>All Response Headers with fetch()</h1>
<script>
 var x= "";
 if(window.fetch)
    fetch(location, {method:'HEAD'})
    .then(function(r) {
       r.headers.forEach(
          function(Value, Header) { x= x + Header + "\n" + Value + "\n\n"; }
       );
    })
    .then(function() {
       document.body.appendChild(document.createElement("pre")).textContent= x;
    });
 else
   document.write("This does not work in your browser - no support for fetch API");
</script>

If we're talking about Request headers, you can create your own headers when doing XmlHttpRequests.

var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.setRequestHeader("X-Requested-With", "XMLHttpRequest");
request.open("GET", path, true);
request.send(null);

The modern ES6+ way, using fetch

(and an additional request)

This has complete browser support.

const resp = await fetch(document.location.href, {method: 'HEAD'});
const headers = Object.fromEntries(resp.headers.entries());

Many of the other answers leverage XMLHTTPRequest and most of them synchronous XHR which hangs the page during the request. This leads to a terrible users experience where the user cannot make any interactions in the meantime.

Gaël's answer is excellent if you already have a Service Worker.

Jakub's answer is excellent and efficient if putting the values into Server Timing works for your usecase.

To get the headers as an object which is handier (improvement of Raja's answer):

var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.open('GET', document.location, true);
req.send(null);
req.onload = function() {
  var headers = req.getAllResponseHeaders().toLowerCase();
  headers = headers.split(/\n|\r|\r\n/g).reduce(function(a, b) {
    if (b.length) {
      var [ key, value ] = b.split(': ');
      a[key] = value;
    }
    return a;
  }, {});
  console.log(headers)
}

I've just tested, and this works for me using Chrome Version 28.0.1500.95.

I was needing to download a file and read the file name. The file name is in the header so I did the following:

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); 
xhr.open('POST', url, true); 
xhr.responseType = "blob";
xhr.onreadystatechange = function () { 
    if (xhr.readyState == 4) {
        success(xhr.response); // the function to proccess the response

        console.log("++++++ reading headers ++++++++");
        var headers = xhr.getAllResponseHeaders();
        console.log(headers);
        console.log("++++++ reading headers end ++++++++");

    }
};

Output:

Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:21:33 GMT
Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=testFileName.doc
Content-Length: 20
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Content-Type: application/octet-stream

This is my script to get all the response headers:

var url = "< URL >";

var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.open('HEAD', url, false);
req.send(null);
var headers = req.getAllResponseHeaders();

//Show alert with response headers.
alert(headers);

Having as a result the response headers.

This is a comparison test using Hurl.it:

Using mootools, you can use this.xhr.getAllResponseHeaders()

I've been playing with the Server-Timing headers to get a response from navigator.sendBeacon() beacon requests even though the Beacon API doesn't really provide an HTTP response. The answer by jakub.g was helpful, so I'd like to flesh it out with respect to the OP's question about accessing response headers.

Here's how you can package them on the server side using Node.js (I'm using the Express framework for a HTTPS web server), and read them on the client side. In the browser JS, we'll be using the PerformanceObserver API, which MDN lists as having widely available support.

Server-side JS:

function add_ServerTiming_Data(res) {
    const headers = res.getHeaders() // get all headers which have been set so far
    const arbitrary_data = {} // arbitrary data to be added to the Server-Timing header

    for (let i = 1; i <= 5; i++) {
        arbitrary_data[`key_${i}`] = `value_${i}`
    }

    let ST_string = "" // the Server-Timing string we will build

    Object.entries({ ...headers, ...arbitrary_data }).forEach(([key, val]) => {
        // randomly generate a duration to illustrate the concept of adding a real number
        // along with each key-value pair in case that's of use to anyone
        const duration = Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000000000) / 1000
        ST_string += `${key};desc="${val}";dur=${duration},`
    })
    res.set({ "Server-Timing": ST_string })
}

Client-side JS:

function perfObserver(list, observer) {
    list.getEntries().forEach((entry) => {
        const url = new URL(entry.name)
        const params = new URLSearchParams(url.searchParams)

        if (url.pathname == "/beacon_json") {  // I only wanted to see responses to these requests...
            if (params.get('event') == 'button_click') { // ...and only if it had this param
                for (const { name: url, serverTiming } of performance.getEntriesByType("resource")) {
                    if (serverTiming) {
                        for (const { name, description, duration } of serverTiming) {
                            console.log(`key: ${name} val: ${description} (duration: ${duration})`)
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    })
    performance.clearResourceTimings() // get rid of them so we don't seem them next time around
}
const observer = new PerformanceObserver(perfObserver)

observer.observe({ entryTypes: ["resource"] }) // N.B. "navigation" is also a type

And here's what you get in the browser console:

   key: x-powered-by val: monist (duration: 449958.641)
   
   key: content-type val: text/html; charset=utf-8 (duration: 993198.434)
   
   key: server val: Sorry sir, we're all out of Bananas Foster (duration: 402915.11)
   
   key: key_1 val: value_1 (duration: 376518.007)
   
   key: key_2 val: value_2 (duration: 528031.17)
   
   key: key_3 val: value_3 (duration: 327411.378)
   
   key: key_4 val: value_4 (duration: 271774.359)
   
   key: key_5 val: value_5 (duration: 329413.206)

Please note that the only headers you can get at are the ones you explicitly had your web server add. If you were to use the browser dev tools to look at the response, you'd see some other stuff, such as, in my case:

connection: keep-alive
date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 22:21:06 GMT
etag: W/"a-bAsFyilMr4Ra1hIU5PyoyFRunpI"
keep-alive: timeout=5

You'll never be able to get at this stuff after the fact, but anything knowable to the server-side code can be stuffed into the Server-Timing header field. I upped my arbitrary_data object to 7K key/value pairs and it was too much for the browser, but 5K worked just fine -- so a lot of room for data!

Have fun, and anyone out there looking for a response which the Beacon API will not provide, you can possibly use this technique for your needs -- it worked for for mine.

As has already been mentioned, if you control the server side then it should be possible to send the initial request headers back to the client in the initial response.

In Express, for example, the following works:

app.get('/somepage', (req, res) => { res.render('somepage.hbs', {headers: req.headers}); }) The headers are then available within the template, so could be hidden visually but included in the markup and read by clientside javascript.

This is an old question. Not sure when support became more broad, but getAllResponseHeaders() and getResponseHeader() appear to now be fairly standard: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/dom_http.asp

I think the question went in the wrong way, If you want to take the Request header from JQuery/JavaScript the answer is simply No. The other solutions is create a aspx page or jsp page then we can easily access the request header. Take all the request in aspx page and put into a session/cookies then you can access the cookies in JavaScript page..

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