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HttpListenerResponse.AddHeader Method

Visual Studio 2008

Adds the specified header and value to the HTTP headers for this response.

Namespace:  System.Net
Assembly:  System (in System.dll)

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public function AddHeader(
	name : String, 
	value : String
)

Parameters

name
Type: System.String

The name of the HTTP header to set.

value
Type: System.String

The value for the name header.

ExceptionCondition
ArgumentNullException

name is a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) or an empty string ("").

ArgumentException

You are not allowed to specify a value for the specified header.

-or-

name or value contains invalid characters.

ArgumentOutOfRangeException

The length of value is greater than 65,535 characters.

Calling this method is equivalent to calling the Set method on the collection returned by the Headers property.

If the header specified in name does not exist, this method inserts a new header into the Headers property's collection. If name is present in the collection, this method replaces the existing value with value. To add a value to an existing header without replacing the existing value, use the AppendHeader method.

The following code example demonstrates adding a header using this property.

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public static void SetExpirationDate(long seconds, HttpListenerResponse response)
{
    response.AddHeader("Expires", seconds.ToString());
}

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0
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