Re: [Boost-users] [beast] Custom, application specific header

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [beast] Custom, application specific header
From: Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-03-27 15:29:24

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 1:09 AM, DePizzottri via Boost-users
<boost-users_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I need to send custom application specific header in the response, but
> http::response operates only with set of predefined http::field values.

Use the overload of basic_fields::insert which accepts a string_view
for the field name:

    boost::beast::http::request<boost::beast::http::empty_body> req;
    req.insert("X-Application-Header", "Value");

See:
<http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_66_0/libs/beast/doc/html/beast/ref/boost__beast__http__basic_fields/insert/overload2.html>

Thanks