Check if request is coming from a browser or api call

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Hi, Is there a way to check if the request originated from a browser or through code (api call)? I know there are request headers, but those can be set through code as well.

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The characteristics of a browser request is they have a browser UserAgent and Accept text/html. Unless you have a good reason for differentiating between a browser request and any other API request that asks for a HTML response you should just be checking whether IRequest.ResponseContentType returns HTML, i.e:

var returnHtml = Request.ResponseContentType.MatchesContentType(MimeTypes.Html);

Note: nothing in ServiceStack modifies the IRequest.Headers which holds the HTTP Request Headers sent with the request, if they’re changed it’s something in your AppHost that’s doing it.