# Custom Headers

Custom HTTP headers are useful when you want to provide additional information to your request. If your request requires passing custom HTTP headers, all you have to do is to append `WSA-` to your header's name and add them to your request.

### Web Stealth Proxy Custom Headers Examples

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="cURL" %}
{% code overflow="wrap" %}

```bash
curl -k -x "http://stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com:80" -U "<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>:<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>" -X GET "https://httpbin.org/get" --header "WSA-random-header: random" "
```

{% endcode %}
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="NodeJS" %}

<pre class="language-javascript" data-overflow="wrap"><code class="lang-javascript">const axios = require('axios');
const https = require('https');

const instance = axios.create({
  httpsAgent: new https.Agent({  
    rejectUnauthorized: false
  })
});

instance.get('https://httpbin.org/get', {
      proxy: {
          host: 'stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com',
          port: 8000,
          auth: {
            username: '&#x3C;YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>',
            password: '&#x3C;YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>'
          },
<strong>          headers: {
</strong>            "WSA-random-header": "random"
          }    
      }
    }).then(function (response) {
        console.log(response.data);
    }, (err) => {
      console.log(err)
})
</code></pre>

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Python" %}
{% code overflow="wrap" %}

```python
import requests

USERNAME = '<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>'
PASSWORD = '<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>'

TARGET_URL = 'https://httpbin.org/get'

PROXY = {
   "http": f"https://{ USERNAME }:{ PASSWORD }@stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com:80"
}

headers = {'WSA-random-header': "random"}

response = requests.get(
   url=TARGET_URL,
   proxies=PROXY,
   headers=headers,
   verify=False
)

print(response.text)
```

{% endcode %}
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="PHP" %}
{% code overflow="wrap" %}

```php
<?php
$ch = curl_init();

$headers = [
    'WSA-random-header: random',
];

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://httpbin.org/get');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, 'http://<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>:<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>@stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com:80');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'GET');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);



curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);

$response = curl_exec($ch);

if (!$response) {
  die('Error: "'.curl_error($ch).'" - Code: '.curl_errno($ch));
}

echo 'HTTP Status Code: '.curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE) . PHP_EOL;
echo 'Response Body: '.$response . PHP_EOL;

curl_close($ch);
?>
```

{% endcode %}
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Go" %}
{% code overflow="wrap" %}

```go
package main

import (
    "crypto/tls"
    "fmt"
    "io/ioutil"
    "net/http"
    "net/url"
)

func send_proxy() {
    proxyStr := "https://<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>:<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>@stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com:8000"
    proxyURL, err := url.Parse(proxyStr)

    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
    }

    transport := &http.Transport{
        Proxy:           http.ProxyURL(proxyURL),
        TLSClientConfig: &tls.Config{InsecureSkipVerify: true},
    }

    client := &http.Client{
        Transport: transport,
    }

    req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://httpbin.org/get", nil)
    
    req.Header.Add("WSA-random-header", "random")

    parseFormErr := req.ParseForm()
    if parseFormErr != nil {
        fmt.Println(parseFormErr)
    }

    res, err := client.Do(req)

    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println("Failure : ", err)
    }

    body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

    fmt.Println(res)
    fmt.Println(string(body))
}

func main() {
    send_proxy()
}
```

{% endcode %}
{% endtab %}

{% tab title=".NET" %}
{% code overflow="wrap" %}

```csharp
using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

class Program
{
    static async Task Main() {

        var proxy = new WebProxy("http://stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com:80")
        {
            Credentials = new NetworkCredential("<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>", "<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>"),
        };

        var clientHandler = new HttpClientHandler
        {
            Proxy = proxy,
        };

        var client = new HttpClient(clientHandler);
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("WSA-random-header", "random");

        var response = await client.GetAsync("http://httpbin.org/get");
        Console.WriteLine(await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
    }
}
```

{% endcode %}
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Ruby" %}
{% code overflow="wrap" %}

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

proxy_host = "stealthproxy.webscrapingapi.com"
proxy_port = 80
proxy_user = "<YOUR-PROXY-USERNAME>"
proxy_pass = "<YOUR-PROXY-PASSWORD>"

url = URI("http://httpbin.org/get")

proxy = Net::HTTP::Proxy(proxy_host,
                         proxy_port,
                         proxy_user,
                         proxy_pass)

req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url.path)

req.add_field("WSA-random-header", "random")

response = proxy.start(url.host,url.port) do |http|
  http.request(req)
end
    
puts response.body
```

{% endcode %}
{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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