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Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 2025 6:26 pm**

Hello All,

Question on the HTTP_POINT_ADDL_HEADER routine.

I have a requirement where I need to create a webservice which will include HEADER parameters and a REQUEST body.

The HEADER parameters are:
IvUserKey
ivUserBic

The Request Body parameters are:
party
partyAccount

I have never used HTTPAPI to add header parameters, looking at existing posts I think I need to do something like this using

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// Notify httpapi of the routine to use to add headers
http_xproc( HTTP_POINT_ADDL_HEADER: %paddr(AddHeaders));

// --------------------------------------------------                    
// Perform the http request and get back the response                    
// --------------------------------------------------                    
Monitor;                                                                 
wResponse = http_string('POST': wUrl: eJsonString: 'application/json'); 

dcl-proc AddHeaders;
  dcl-pi *n;
    toBeAdded varchar(32767);
  end-pi;

  toBeAdded = 'IvUserKey: valuea' + x'0d25'
     		   + 'ivUserBic: valueb' + x'0d25';
 end-proc;

Is this the correct way to go about this?

Thankyou for your time, much appreciated

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 2025 6:57 pm**

It looks correct to me.

Posted: **Thu Jul 31, 2025 4:28 pm**

Just an additional info.

I used the following statement to register a header handler:

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http_xproc( HTTP_POINT_ADDL_HEADER  : %paddr(Add_headers) );

However, I noticed that subsequent HTTP requests to different endpoints (such as the authentication token request) within the same program continued to carry over the same headers.

To resolve this, I had to explicitly deregister the header handler after each HTTP request by using:

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http_xproc( HTTP_POINT_ADDL_HEADER  : *NULL );

Posted: **Thu Jul 31, 2025 7:06 pm**

Yes, that is the expected behavior.

Posted: **Fri Aug 08, 2025 3:57 pm**

It seems my authorisation header needs to be in BASE64, for this I have downloaded Scott's BASE64R4 program.

The program BASE64R4 makes perfect sense (Thanks Scott) but I just wondered about the format of the data when I add it to header, once converted does it still need the CRLF at the end?

For example:
My details are:

User Id: demo
Password: p@55w0rd

When encoded to BASE64 this looks like ZGVtbzpwQDU1dzByZA==

The format of the authorization header should be Authorization: Basic ZGVtbzpwQDU1dzByZA==

Posted: **Fri Aug 08, 2025 5:44 pm**

Support for that is built-in. Just do this before your request:

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http_setauth(http_auth_basic : 'demo' : 'p@55w0rd' );

...http_string...and other code here...

After you are done, remove the password from memory...

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http_setauth(http_auth_none:'':'');

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