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My team hosts a set of central web pages that is used by many different organizations. These pages change their look and feel (fonts, images, etc.) based on which organization calls the page. This is determined by a custom HTTP Request Header: "organization". I am building a test site to test the look and feel of ALL of the different organizations.

My plan was to have a web site with a drop down where our QA people can choose an Org then click something (button/link) to open the central web pages with the look and feel for that org. Note that when calling these central pages the URL in the browser MUST change to the URL of the page. So far all ideas/samples I can find involve getting the page content from the remote server and displaying it IN the calling page (URL does NOT change). Bottom line is I need to be able to set HTTP Request Headers then open a new URL with those headers.

I can use JavaScript, ASP Classic, Java and/or other similar technologies/languages. Any ideas to get me started?

I did find some similar questions to mine but none of them allow the URL to change in the browser so it doesn't work.

EDIT:

OK so it seems to not be possible via code. We cannot use a proxy since corporate has locked our browsers down and we cannot change proxy settings (even on dynamically created browser profiles). So is it possible to add custom HTTP Request Headers in IIS Express? If so I can write java test cases that modify the config files of IIS Express then start the server and load a central test page that redirects to the appropriate pages. Can this be done?

Answer 1

I am dying to know how the architect of this solution intended for end users to add headers indicating their organizational membership. Corporate proxy perhaps? Who knows. Seems cray cray. Whatever the intention was, you should be trying to adhere to it, if you want an accurate test.

But if can't do that, and your sole need is to perform testing under the assumption that the headers can be added somehow (just not by you), and you have control over your browser, you can use an add-on, such as Modify Headers for FireFox .

You could also build something separate to act as a proxy and add the headers, such as the solution to this question . Point your browser at the proxy and voila.