Retrieving all request headers in Shiny web applications

Marian Čaikovski
4 min readOct 10, 2021

By default open source Shiny server does not pass the request headers to R scripts.

What is Shiny and how request headers could be useful I explained in my previous post. If you need to access request headers in a Shiny application you have two options:

  • to buy Shiny Server Professional
  • to spend several minutes on…

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Marian Čaikovski

Java, JavaScript and SQL developer. Interested in data collection and visualization.