http.HttpRequest.META

HttpRequest.META

A standard Python dictionary containing all available HTTP headers. Available headers depend on the client and server, but here are some examples:

• CONTENT_LENGTH – The length of the request body (as a string).
• CONTENT_TYPE – The MIME type of the request body.
• HTTP_ACCEPT – Acceptable content types for the response.
• HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING – Acceptable encodings for the response.
• HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE – Acceptable languages for the response.
• HTTP_HOST – The HTTP Host header sent by the client.
• HTTP_REFERER – The referring page, if any.
• HTTP_USER_AGENT – The client’s user-agent string.
• QUERY_STRING – The query string, as a single (unparsed) string.
• REMOTE_ADDR – The IP address of the client.
• REMOTE_HOST – The hostname of the client.
• REMOTE_USER – The user authenticated by the Web server, if any.
• REQUEST_METHOD – A string such as "GET" or "POST".
• SERVER_NAME – The hostname of the server.
• SERVER_PORT – The port of the server (as a string).

With the exception of CONTENT_LENGTH and CONTENT_TYPE, as given above, any HTTP headers in the request are converted to META keys by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores and adding an HTTP_ prefix to the name. So, for example, a header called X-Bender would be mapped to the META key HTTP_X_BENDER.

Note that runserver strips all headers with underscores in the name, so you won’t see them in META. This prevents header-spoofing based on ambiguity between underscores and dashes both being normalizing to underscores in WSGI environment variables. It matches the behavior of Web servers like Nginx and Apache 2.4+.