ASP.NET Core MVC 5 is a lightweight, open source framework built on top of the ASP.NET Core 5 runtime. ASP.NET Core 5 MVC provides support for request and response headers, which are collections of key-value pairs that are passed between the server and the client together with a request or response.
This article talks about how you can read request headers in ASP.NET Core 5 MVC, using the RequestHeaders class pertaining to Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Headers namespace. To work with the code examples provided in this article, you should have Visual Studio 2019 installed in your system. If you don’t already have a copy, you can download Visual Studio 2019 here.
