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Xamarin WebView With Custom Headers

An example that shows how to send request headers in a Xamarin Webview using custom renderers. An example that shows how define custom headers values from shared code is also included.

Simple version

The request is filled with a custom header which then can be fetched in the website scanning the request's headers:

Android

Android requires the INTERNET permission in order to load a website from the Internet.

Basically, you need to define a WebViewClient and override the ShouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, string url) function, then set the headers and perform the request calling View.LoadUrl(url, headers).

iOS

iOS doesn't require any special configuration.

var headerKey = new NSString("A-custom-header");
var headerValue = new NSString("a custom value");
var dictionary = new NSDictionary(headerKey, headerValue);

webRequest.Headers = dictionary;

Defining custom headers values from shared code

If you want to assign a custom value from shared code to each renderer, take a look at the CustomWebView control and CustomWebViewPage view to see how to achieve this. Basically, we're using Xamarin.Forms custom controls and data bindings to define custom parameters and get the value in each custom renderer.

References

Xamarin WebView Guide

My discussion in Xamarin Forums

Build Information

This project was created in Visual Studio for Mac

Versión: 7.3.3 (build 5)

Template: Xamarin Forms App