altering Request.Headers

[Adam]

It seems you cannot through an httpmodule alter request.headers . Is there a
way around this (sure.. it works fine in isapi of course). It doesn't seem to
have been changed in asp.net 2.0 either. Any workaround?
Thanks

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hi adamtuliper,

Welcome to MSDN newsgroup.
As for the altering the ASP.NET web request's header collection you
mentioend, I'm afraid this is not available due to the encapsulated
HttpRequest/HttpResponse object model of ASP.NET webappliction. In ASP.NET
the raw http request/response stream and headers are well encapsulated, and
most headers or other info are represented as the properties of
HttpRequest/HttpResponse class. We can view them through the MSDN reference
and only those non-readonly properties are allowed to be alter in
HttpModule or other intercepting channels. If we do need to do some low
level injecting or intercepting, I still recommend using raw ISAPI filters
instead.

Thanks,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

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