Getting a Request.Headers value

Question

Very simple I\'m sure, but driving me up the wall! There is a component that I use in my web application that identifies itself during a web request by adding the header \"X

Answer 1

Firstly you don't do this in your view. You do it in the controller and return a view model to the view so that the view doesn't need to care about custom HTTP headers but just displaying data on the view model:

public ActionResult Index()
{
    var xyzComponent = Request.Headers["xyzComponent"];
    var model = new MyModel 
    {
        IsCustomHeaderSet = (xyzComponent != null)
    }
    return View(model);
}