weboptions adding additional header parameters/parameters to HTTP POST request

Hi,

I am trying to connect to an API where I need to pass the Authorization token. The authorization is part of the header of HTTP POST.

Authorization: abc230
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 2
Content-Type: application/json

In Matlab, 'weboptions' function/object can have 'Username' and 'Password' as named fields. It also mentions 'KeyName' and 'KeyValue' as additional fields that can be passed.

I wanted to clarify if the following command will make things consistent with the API header requirement:

weboptions('RequestMethod','POST','ContentType', 'json','Timeout',60,'KeyName','Authorization','KeyValue','abc230')

This is my output

      CharacterEncoding: 'auto'
              UserAgent: 'MATLAB 8.5.0.197613 (R2015a)'
                Timeout: 60
               Username: ''
               Password: ''
                KeyName: 'Authorization'
               KeyValue: 'abc230'
            ContentType: 'json'
          ContentReader: []
              MediaType: 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
          RequestMethod: 'post'

Thanks,

Vaibhav

Answer 1

[Morrie Gasser]

Prior to R2016b, KeyName and KeyValue let you add one custom header field to the request. In R2016b, weboptions now allows you to specify an arbitrary number of header fields using the 'HeaderFields' option.