1046495 - Manually Add Header

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Netmonitor, defect, P3)

Description

[Bob Strecansky]

Attachment: ManuallyAddingHeaderViaModifyHeader.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140715214327

Steps to reproduce:

Currently, to add an artifical header in a HTTP/HTTPS request, one needs to download an (untrusted) third party plugin like Modify Headers: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/modify-headers/

In my day-to-day work, I often need to add debugging or pragma headers to a request in order to retrieve useful output.  I also have to get clients to do the same, and they often have difficulty installing a 3rd party plugin and using it properly.  We then must resort to having them use google chrome, because ModHeader is a 1 click plugin that is much easier to use.  This simple additon to the firefox dev tools would allow for much wider adaptation of the use of firefox with my customers / clients.


Actual results:

I am not able to add a header within the dev tools section.


Expected results:

I should have been able to add a header within the dev tools section.

Comment 1

[Bob Strecansky]

(In reply to Bob Strecansky from comment #0)
> Created attachment 8465150 [details]
> ManuallyAddingHeaderViaModifyHeader.png
> 
> User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101
> Firefox/31.0 (Beta/Release)
> Build ID: 20140715214327
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> Currently, to add an artifical header in a HTTP/HTTPS request, one needs to
> download an (untrusted) third party plugin like Modify Headers:
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/modify-headers/
> 
> In my day-to-day work, I often need to add debugging or pragma headers to a
> request in order to retrieve useful output.  I also have to get clients to
> do the same, and they often have difficulty installing a 3rd party plugin
> and using it properly.  We then must resort to having them use google
> chrome, because ModHeader is a 1 click plugin that is much easier to use. 
> This simple additon to the firefox dev tools would allow for much wider
> adaptation of the use of firefox with my customers / clients.
> 
I did notice that I have the ability to go into the network tab (after loading the network element), click on the asset I want, look in the headers section, click "Edit and Resend", and then check the response headers again based on that particular request for one individual header.  This option in my opinion is not scalable, because there are often times many differnent assets that I want to apply an arbitrary header to.



> 
> Actual results:
> 
> I am not able to add a header within the dev tools section.
> 
> 
> Expected results:
> 
> I should have been able to add a header within the dev tools section.

Comment 2

[Axel Kratel]

Feature request from customer. Will add this to our backlog and get it queued up for development. Putting this in NetMonitor for now.