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Works perfect, I modified the code a bit as I had to create a POST with a JSON object containing "UserName" and "Password" to retrieve the the session token "X-Auth-Token" from the Response Header.

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(Url);
request.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = false;
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/json";

using (var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(request.GetRequestStream()))
{
	string json = "{" + "\"UserName\":\""+Username+"\","+"\"Password\":\""+Password+"\"}}";

       streamWriter.Write(json);
       streamWriter.Flush();
       streamWriter.Close();
}

using (WebResponse response = request.GetResponse())
{
    using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
    {
        string sessionToken = response.Headers["X-Auth-Token"];
        return sessionToken;
    }
}

Untested but you should be able to do something like

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(newURL);
request.Method = "GET";
request.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = false;
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

using (WebResponse response = request.GetResponse())
{
    using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
    {
        responseString = reader.ReadToEnd();
        string limit = response.Headers["X-RateLimit-Limit"];
    }
}

Replace "X-RateLimit-Limit" with your Header string you need.

According to Symantec there is no possibilities to extract the Response Header with the REST Generator, so to do that I must use a script component. I will add this as a feature request/idea. 

I will create a support case for this and I will keep you posted about their response.

Besides this I found another issue as this REST API is SSL encrypted and I have choosen to "Ignore Certificate Warnings" under Machine Settings - Remote Connections on the Workflow Server. With this enabled I don't get any warnings, and thats fine but I wont't get the correct status code result: 201 Created, instead I get 308 which indicates certificate problems. So I will raise a ticket for this as well.

Thanks, I appreciate all help I can get.

Hi,

I am struggling to get the REST Generator working for a "POST" where I am trying to create a session towards a REST API that will return the session token in the Response Header and not in the JSON response. I can get this to work when using Postman but I do not see how I could retrieve the "Response Header" data from the REST Generator. Anyone have any ideas on how to deal with this?

BR /// Per-Erik