Is there common ways to stop the header propagator?

[snakorse]

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Question

• My service call DingDing open apis via httpclient, the problem is the DingDing server do not allow additional custom http request header, thus I need a way to control do not inject the skywalking propagate-header to httpclient, so I want to known is there common ways to tell the skyapm-agent framwork that do not propagete the header further while doing some special request?

[wu-sheng]

Do you mean Java agent?

[snakorse]

Yes, does java agent have such function?

[snakorse]

But ideally, I want to known if we should provide a mechanism at the protocol layer which all agent could follow to let the user disable the header propagation when calling some special thirty party service.

[wu-sheng]

I think today, we don't have such things. As it is hard to tell which is an internal call, the other is for 3rd party, like Dingding. If this really is a block to you, I recommend you add a proxy before calling the dingding server. All HTTP1/2 proxy has the capability to filter or change headers.

Does this make sense to you?