Custom Headers when using ODATA Service

MartyT

I'm using an ODATA service that requires a couple of custom request headers for authentication (not the typical username / password).

Is there a way to specify custom headers from LINQPad? It would sure help speed up my development effort!

Thanks

MartyT

No response from anyone on this question?

If LINQ Pad doesn't currently support adding custom headers to the outgoing ODATA request, it would be almost trivial to add it...

Puf

In that case I suggest adding it to http://linqpad.uservoice.com/forums/18302-linqpad-feature-suggestions .

JoeAlbahari

Are the headers that you need static?

MartyT

Yes, there are couple of static authorization tokens that I need to send, so the ability to define an arbitrary number of name/value pairs for the headers would be great.

JoeAlbahari

Do these headers need to be sent when querying schema information, too? Or just when querying data?

MartyT

No, only for data queries.

JoeAlbahari

It should be simple, then. I'll add this to the next beta build.

MartyT

Cool! Thanks for quick response.

JoeAlbahari

This is now done in the latest beta: www.linqpad.net/beta.aspx

MartyT

Thanks, Joe - works like a charm! Took me a minute to find the UI for specifying the headers, but once in place, it's working great. This will be a big help to me!

JeffOdel

Joe - unfortunately I need to calculate some headers on a per request basis (not static). I'm going to poke around to see how this might be done. Any thoughts?