Read HTTP headers in Controller (Zend Framework)

Question

Long story short: I'm building a skeleton application for Zend Framework and I got to the part where I need to setup the api module. I'm using Zend_Rest_Controller for this job. All is ok up to this part where I need to get the HTTP headers in a controller to verify the api key.

On various tutorials I've read on the web the thing is done via a front controller plugin, but I need it to be more "plug and play" than that (checking each time the config of the application, deciding which module is the api and so on).

I tried what seemed most obvious $this->getRequest()->getHeaders() but doesn't seem to work, at least not for the HTTP headers where I'll be seding my api key. Neither the reponse object.

Can anyone help me with this one?

Answer 1

I found a way of doing this after all :)

On the preDispatch() method in your controller you can do the following:

public function preDispatch()
{
    $request = new Zend_Controller_Request_Http();
    $key = $request->getHeader('x-apikey');
}

It seems that Zend_Controller_Request_Http object gives you acces to the headers. More info on the Zend_Controller_Request_Http you can find here