After reading the following question (Authorization header in Ruby on Rails accessed with key HTTP_AUTHORIZATION instead of Authorization?) I have a similar problem as the OP, but the proposed answer does not seem to solve mine.

I define a custom header as such in a call to my locally hosted server (through Postman):

@Igor: I actually use Postman, so I just added the curl code to demonstrate what I did. I guess it would be better to include a screenshot:

And this is the code in my controller which tries to read said header:

def authenticate_through_header custom_header_value = request.headers['custom_header'] end 

However, this return nil. On the other hand, request.headers['HTTP_CUSTOM_HEADER'] returns the value. According to the question I linked to initially, I should be able to get the value through passing the name within the brackets [ ] - is this something which has been changed in newer Rails versions?

Cheers :-)

Update: It also works to access the variable in the following way: request.headers['custom-header']. So apparently it works to replace the underscore with a hyphen, which seems weird.

After reading the following question (Authorization header in Ruby on Rails accessed with key HTTP_AUTHORIZATION instead of Authorization?) I have a similar problem as the OP, but the proposed answer does not seem to solve mine.

I define a custom header as such in a call to my locally hosted server (through Postman):

@Igor: I actually use Postman, so I just added the curl code to demonstrate what I did. I guess it would be better to include a screenshot:

And this is the code in my controller which tries to read said header:

def authenticate_through_header custom_header_value = request.headers['custom_header'] end 

However, this return nil. On the other hand, request.headers['HTTP_CUSTOM_HEADER'] returns the value. According to the question I linked to initially, I should be able to get the value through passing the name within the brackets [ ] - is this something which has been changed in newer Rails versions?

Cheers :-)

Update: It also works to access the variable in the following way: request.headers['custom-header']. So apparently it works to replace the underscore with a hyphen, which seems weird.

After reading the following question (Authorization header in Ruby on Rails accessed with key HTTP_AUTHORIZATION instead of Authorization?) I have a similar problem as the OP, but the proposed answer does not seem to solve mine.

I define a custom header as such in a call to my locally hosted server (through Postman):

curl -H 'custom_header: "header",...' http://app/path

And this is the code in my controller which tries to read said header:

def authenticate_through_header custom_header_value = request.headers['custom_header'] end 

However, this return nil. On the other hand, request.headers['HTTP_CUSTOM_HEADER'] returns the value. According to the question I linked to initially, I should be able to get the value through passing the name within the brackets [ ] - is this something which has been changed in newer Rails versions?

Cheers :-)

After reading the following question (Authorization header in Ruby on Rails accessed with key HTTP_AUTHORIZATION instead of Authorization?) I have a similar problem as the OP, but the proposed answer does not seem to solve mine.

I define a custom header as such in a call to my locally hosted server (through Postman):

@Igor: I actually use Postman, so I just added the curl code to demonstrate what I did. I guess it would be better to include a screenshot:

And this is the code in my controller which tries to read said header:

def authenticate_through_header custom_header_value = request.headers['custom_header'] end 

However, this return nil. On the other hand, request.headers['HTTP_CUSTOM_HEADER'] returns the value. According to the question I linked to initially, I should be able to get the value through passing the name within the brackets [ ] - is this something which has been changed in newer Rails versions?

Cheers :-)

Update: It also works to access the variable in the following way: request.headers['custom-header']. So apparently it works to replace the underscore with a hyphen, which seems weird.