Symfony functional test - custom headers not passing through

Question

For some reason when i sent a new $client->request the headers I specify get lost:

public function testGetClientsAction()
{
    $client = static::createClien         


        

Answer 1

I have the same issue and after a little dig through I think it is a feature that BrowserKit currently doesn't support.

I have logged an issue for it: https://github.com/symfony/symfony/issues/5074

Update: this is not an issue -- see the comments below

Sample Code

Sample request:

$client->request(
    'GET',
    $url,
    array(),
    array(),
    array(
        'HTTP_X_CUSTOM_VAR' => $var
    )
);

Fetching the data:

$request->headers->get('x-custom-var');

Answer 2

If you check the definition from Client.php, at method request, you will see in the docblock a very useful information:

• @param array $server The server parameters (HTTP headers are referenced with a HTTP_ prefix as PHP does)

This means that you should add a HTTP_ prefix to the header you want to send. For example if you want to pass header X-HTTP-Method-Override you specify it like so:

    $client->request(
        Request::METHOD_POST,
        '/api/v1/something',
        $body,
        [],
        ['HTTP_X-HTTP-Method-Override' => Request::METHOD_GET]
    );