<refentry id="refresphdr">

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>ne_get_response_header</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname id="ne_get_response_header">ne_get_response_header</refname>
    <refname id="ne_response_header_iterate">ne_response_header_iterate</refname>
    <refpurpose>functions to access response headers</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>
  
  <refsynopsisdiv>

    <funcsynopsis>

      <funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;ne_request.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>

      <funcprototype>
        <funcdef>const char *<function>ne_get_response_header</function></funcdef>
        <paramdef>ne_request *<parameter>request</parameter></paramdef>
        <paramdef>const char *<parameter>name</parameter></paramdef>
      </funcprototype>

      <funcprototype>
        <funcdef>void *<function>ne_response_header_iterate</function></funcdef>
        <paramdef>ne_request *<parameter>request</parameter></paramdef>
        <paramdef>void *<parameter>cursor</parameter></paramdef>
        <paramdef>const char **<parameter>name</parameter></paramdef>
        <paramdef>const char **<parameter>value</parameter></paramdef>
      </funcprototype>

    </funcsynopsis>

  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>

    <para>To retrieve the value of a response header field, the
    <function>ne_get_response_header</function> function can be used,
    and is given the name of the header to return.</para>

    <para>To iterate over all the response headers returned, the
    <function>ne_response_header_iterate</function> function can be
    used.  This function takes a <parameter>cursor</parameter>
    parameter which should be &null; to retrieve the first header. The
    function stores the name and value of the next header header in
    the <parameter>name</parameter> and <parameter>value</parameter>
    parameters, and returns a new cursor pointer which can be passed
    to <function>ne_response_header_iterate</function> to retrieve the
    next header.</para>

  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Return value</title>

    <para><function>ne_get_response_header</function> returns a
    string, or &null; if no header with that name was given.  If used
    during request processing, the return value pointer is valid only
    until the next call to <function>ne_begin_request</function>, or
    else, until the request object is destroyed.</para>

    <para>Likewise, the cursor, names, and values returned by
    <function>ne_response_header_iterate</function> are only valid
    until the next call to <function>ne_begin_request</function> or
    until the request object is destroyed.</para>

  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Examples</title>

    <para>The following code will output the value of the
    <literal>Last-Modified</literal> header for a resource:</para>

    <programlisting>ne_request *req = ne_request_create(sess, "GET", "/foo.txt");
if (ne_request_dispatch(req) == NE_OK) {
    const char *mtime = ne_get_response_header(req, "Last-Modified");
    if (mtime) {
        printf("/foo.txt has last-modified value %s\n", mtime);
    }
}
ne_request_destroy(req);</programlisting>

  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>See also</title>

    <para><xref linkend="ne_request_create"/>, <xref
    linkend="ne_request_destroy"/>.</para>
  </refsect1>

</refentry>