When I do a GET request for a url on my laravel web app, I do the following in my controller to retrieve a custom header:
Request::header('customheader');
This value is always blank, though the header is clearly visible in Chrome Developer Tools in the Request Headers
While troubleshooting I tried using a standard header: Connection
Looking at the request headers, I expected the following:
Request::header('Connection') == "keep-alive"
What is super weird is that this instead returned "close" aka, the value of Connection in the Response Headers. This explains why my custom header is showing up empty (it is not in the response, but the request).
So what gives? The Laravel docs clearly state that this is the way to retreive REQUEST headers.
http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/requests#request-information
Any soltuions to get what I want?
edit: $_SERVER["HTTP_HEADER_NAME"] as proposed in https://stackoverflow.com/a/541450/1800023 gives me the same results. The values are those from the RESPONSE headers.
