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User count 40,000+ 10,000+
Average rating 3.38 4.50
Rating count 42 12
Last updated 2024-02-19 2022-03-15
Size 96.59K 142.34K
Version 0.1.9 1.8.1
Short description
Add, modify or remove a header for any request on desired domains. Simple Modify headers
Full summary

Modify Header Value (HTTP Headers) is an extension that can add, modify or remove an HTTP-request-header for all requests on a desired website or URL. This Addon is very useful if you are an App developer, website designer, or if you want to test a particular header for a request on a website.

Key features:

  1. Easily add, modify or remove a header for any request on desired domains.
  2. For a complete list of HTTP headers, please take a look at the list of all HTTP Header Fields on the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields).
  3. Clicking on the Toolbar icon opens a UI to quickly switch the Addon ON or OFF, or open the options page.
  4. Each header item has several options to adjust (see add-on's Options page for details)
  5. You can add several header items and active or inactive them separately.
  6. An example in the options page shows a tutorial on "How to add a custom header".

Note: to report bugs, please visit addon's homepage (https://mybrowseraddon.com/modify-header-value.html) and fill out the bug report form.

The extension rewrite the headers based on a rules table.

It's possible to:

add , modify or delete header field for HTTP(S) request or response
export the configuration in a file (json format)
import the configuration from a file 
choose urls on which the modifications applies

In order to work, the following extension permissions are needed :

storage : needed to store the configuration 
activeTab, tabs : needed to show the configuration screen in the browser tab.
webRequest,webRequestBlocking,<all_urls> : needed to modify the headers
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