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Clarify headers config option description (#33484)
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Reading over this page, it wasn't immediately clear to me if these were headers which would get read off of the incoming request, or headers to be added to the outgoing response.



## Documentation / Examples

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lobsterkatie committed Jan 25, 2022
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Headers allow you to set custom HTTP headers for an incoming request path.
Headers allow you to set custom HTTP headers on the response to an incoming request on a given path.

To set custom HTTP headers you can use the `headers` key in `next.config.js`:

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`headers` is an async function that expects an array to be returned holding objects with `source` and `headers` properties:

- `source` is the incoming request path pattern.
- `headers` is an array of header objects with the `key` and `value` properties.
- `headers` is an array of response header objects, with `key` and `value` properties.
- `basePath`: `false` or `undefined` - if false the basePath won't be included when matching, can be used for external rewrites only.
- `locale`: `false` or `undefined` - whether the locale should not be included when matching.
- `has` is an array of [has objects](#header-cookie-and-query-matching) with the `type`, `key` and `value` properties.
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