Compare Chrome extensions: Header-Editor vs HTTP Headers

Stats Header-Editor Header-Editor HTTP Headers HTTP Headers
User count 7,000+ 2,000+
Average rating 3.65 4.00
Rating count 17 4
Last updated 2015-04-13 2021-12-25
Size 134.14K 109.57K
Version 2.2.0 1.1.1
Short description
Alter your HTTP request headers on the fly Quickly view HTTP headers for the current page.
Full summary

Header-Editor is an extension that will allow you to create and use arbitrary HTTP headers in Chrome.

The following permissions are needed for Header-Editor to run:

  • webRequest - Used to access the requests being sent out.
  • webRequestBlocking - So that headers are modified before being sent.
  • <all_urls> - All URLs are asked for since the extension cannot know ahead of time where it will be needed.

Note: Response headers do not appear in the Network Inspector, however they are supplied to your code. For more details, see:

Display HTTP headers for all requests and responses for the current page.

HTTP Headers is a lightweight extension that contains no third-party libraries and no user tracking. It is designed to allow you to quickly review status codes and headers for the requests that Chrome makes and the responses it receives. Headers are always listed alphabetically, and very long values are truncated to a single line until you hover over them with your mouse, to keep the list easy to read.

Descriptions of common headers are included to help you understand what each one does. Clicking on a value will copy that header to the clipboard in the standard HTTP header format.

The extension's icon will display a badge indicating either the status code of the response, or the total number of requests the browser made, including redirects. The color of the badge always indicates the status of final response.

This extension is open source and the source code is available at https://github.com/farski/http-headers-crx