How to set headers for forwarded request - http-headers

Question

My controller's methods require a header to be set, e.g. X-Authorization. After a new object has been created (store action), I do a forward to show the newly created object (show action):
$request = Request::create(route('api.v1.b.show', ['booking' => 4]), 'GET');
Request::replace($request->input());
return Route::dispatch($request);
The forwarding works ok if I disable the authorization check, but it fails otherwise. ie. the header has gone. I would like to copy the request header, which I can get with Request::header('X-Authorization') into the forwarded request. Is it possible?
I have tried without success to do $request->header('X-Authorization', 'xxxxx'). Also tried PHP's header() before the dispatch and didn't work.
Any ideas? Cheers

Answer 1

Ok, i think you need to set the headers like so:
$request = Request::create(route('api.v1.b.show', ['booking' => 4]), 'GET');
$request->headers->set('X-Authorization', 'xxxxx');
That is the answer to your question.
My question is: Where can we set this headers for every api request(forwarding)? Because i personally have 5 headers to set with the request and i don't want to repeat myself.

Answer 2

In case anyone might need this i just wanted to post it could help someone
$request =new Request();
$request->headers->set('Authorization', {{your_key_here}});

Answer 3

// From #musicvicious answer
$request = Request::create(route('api.v1.b.show', ['booking' => 4]), 'GET');
If you want to set multiple headers at a time, you can pass more arguments to Request::create()
/**
* Creates a Request based on a given URI and configuration.
*
* The information contained in the URI always take precedence
* over the other information (server and parameters).
*
* #param string $uri The URI
* #param string $method The HTTP method
* #param array $parameters The query (GET) or request (POST) parameters
* #param array $cookies The request cookies ($_COOKIE)
* #param array $files The request files ($_FILES)
* #param array $server The server parameters ($_SERVER)
* #param string $content The raw body data
*
* #return static
*/
Pass your headers starting with 'HTTP_' in $server argument.
$server = [
'HTTP_YOUR_HEADER_NAME_1' => 'Value 1',
'HTTP_YOUR_HEADER_NAME_2' => 'Value 2',
];
Your request will have header like below
your-header-name-1: Value 1;
your-header-name-2: Value 2;