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CustomHTTPHeader - AWS WAFV2

CustomHTTPHeader

A custom header for custom request and response handling. This is used in CustomResponse and CustomRequestHandling.

Contents

Name

The name of the custom header.

For custom request header insertion, when AWS WAF inserts the header into the request, it prefixes this name x-amzn-waf-, to avoid confusion with the headers that are already in the request. For example, for the header name sample, AWS WAF inserts the header x-amzn-waf-sample.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 64.

Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9._$-]+$

Required: Yes

Value

The value of the custom header.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Pattern: .*

Required: Yes

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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