Free, browser-based utilities for everyday developer workflows

Parse and Build HTTP Headers

Paste raw HTTP headers from browser DevTools, inspect them in a clean grid, detect duplicates, normalise casing, and export as JSON or raw text.

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When you need this
  • You are debugging a CORS preflight failure and need to inspect the exact Access-Control headers being sent.
  • You need to compare request headers sent by two different clients to find a discrepancy.
  • You are building a request snippet and need to transform copied DevTools headers into JSON format for fetch or Axios.
  • A proxy is adding duplicate headers and you need to identify which headers appear more than once.
How to do it with Daily Developer Tools
  • Copy headers from Chrome DevTools: Network tab → select a request → Headers tab → right-click → Copy all as text.
  • Paste the raw headers into the HTTP Headers Parser.
  • Review the grid view — duplicate headers are highlighted and you can edit or delete individual entries.
  • Export as JSON, as a cURL -H flag list, or as normalised raw text.
Tips / common pitfalls
  • HTTP header names are case-insensitive (RFC 7230) but some servers treat them case-sensitively. Use the normalise option to convert to lowercase.
  • CORS preflight responses must include both Access-Control-Allow-Origin and Access-Control-Allow-Methods — check both are present.
  • If Content-Type appears twice, one copy will silently win — always check for duplicates in proxy and middleware configurations.
  • Large number of headers from single-page apps may include many tracking and analytics headers — filter them before sharing.
Examples & test data

CORS preflight response headers

Raw headers (from DevTools)
HTTP/2 204
access-control-allow-origin: https://app.example.com
access-control-allow-methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS
access-control-allow-headers: Authorization, Content-Type, X-Request-ID
access-control-max-age: 86400
vary: Origin
content-length: 0
Parsed as JSON
{
  "access-control-allow-origin": "https://app.example.com",
  "access-control-allow-methods": "GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS",
  "access-control-allow-headers": "Authorization, Content-Type, X-Request-ID",
  "access-control-max-age": "86400",
  "vary": "Origin",
  "content-length": "0"
}
FAQ
How do I copy headers from Chrome?

Open DevTools (F12), go to the Network tab, click any request, and click the Headers tab. Right-click in the headers area and select "Copy all as text", or use the raw headers section at the bottom of the panel.

What are duplicate headers?

A duplicate header is when the same name appears more than once. Some headers like Set-Cookie are intentionally duplicated. Others like Content-Type should appear once — duplicates indicate a proxy or middleware bug.

Can I export as JSON?

Yes. Export as a JSON object (useful for fetch/Axios), as cURL -H flags, or as normalised raw text. The JSON export can be piped into the JSON Snippet Generator for request code generation.

i Privacy-first: runs locally in your browser. No uploads.

How to parse and build HTTP headers

Paste raw HTTP headers — with or without the status line — and the tool splits them into a name/value grid. Edit, delete, or add headers, then export in your preferred format.

Common use cases

Front-end developers use this to extract the exact headers sent by browser requests when debugging authentication issues with third-party APIs. Security engineers use it to audit CORS configuration by inspecting preflight response headers. Developers writing integration tests use the JSON export to build the header objects needed by their test HTTP clients.

Why run this in your browser?

All processing happens locally in your browser. Your data never leaves your machine, making it safe for sensitive payloads, internal API responses, and confidential configurations.