Alter response header in Web API to return machine name

Aug 7, 2018 # dotNet Core 2, AspNet, Middleware, WebApi

Full source code available here.

I recently hit a problem where I was getting incorrect responses from a server behind a load balancer. Looking at the logs didn’t help because there was no error.

It was likely due to a misconfigured environmental variable but I couldn’t even identify which server was having the problem because of the load balancer.

Luckily the application was a .NET Core Web Api and I could use a little bit of middleware to add the server name to the response header.

It’s a trivial change in the Configure(..) method of Startup.cs

1public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env)
2{
3    app.Use((context, next) =>
4    {
5        context.Response.Headers.Add("MachineName", $"{Environment.MachineName}");
6        return next();
7    });
8    app.UseMvc();
9}

That’s all I had to do.

Here’s how the response looks now.

Full source code available here.

dotNet Core 2 AspNet Middleware WebApi

Alter response header in Web API to return machine name

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