HTTP Headers & Security Headers Checker

Enter a URL to follow its redirects, list the response headers and grade the security headers browsers rely on. Useful for debugging caching, CORS, redirects and webhook endpoints.

  • Free
  • No sign-up
  • Checked from our server

How to use the HTTP Headers Checker

  1. Enter a full URL, including https://.
  2. Click Check headers.
  3. Review each redirect and the final response headers.
  4. Add the missing security headers flagged in the report.

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Frequently asked questions

At minimum: Strict-Transport-Security on HTTPS sites, a Content-Security-Policy, X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff, a frame-ancestors directive or X-Frame-Options, and a Referrer-Policy. Permissions-Policy is a good addition.

Strict-Transport-Security tells browsers to use HTTPS for your domain for a set time, so they never make a plain HTTP request that could be intercepted.

Redirects, missing HTTPS and unexpected authentication challenges are common reasons webhook deliveries fail. Checking the endpoint shows you what a sender sees.

Public http and https URLs on the standard ports 80 and 443. Private, local and internal network addresses are blocked.

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