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I want to alter a HTTP header and I am looking for the appropriate hook to use. I can tell a general time of when some hooks are called but not exactly when. How do I know exactly when hooks are called, and what hook I should be using to change my header?

edit: I have managed to change my HTTP header. But something else is adding to my header and that is taking precedent over my header portion. Is there a way to know where this is coming from?

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    The simplest way would probably be to fire up XDebug and put breakpoints in ModuleHandler::invoke and ModuleHandler::invokeAll
    – Clive ♦
    Commented May 14, 2015 at 16:32
  • api.drupal.org/api pages for hooks also show where hooks are invoked from which can be useful in some cases.
    – rooby
    Commented May 14, 2015 at 16:33
  • @rooby I am looking on the page and thats where I am finding my hooks, but I dont see a tree or hierarchy of hooks or anything. They seem to be sorted alphabetically
    – BrandenB171
    Commented May 14, 2015 at 18:31
  • You have to search for the hook you are interested in (for example hook_theme), then look for the collapsed fieldset that lists invocations of the hook, then you can follow the links in that fieldset.
    – rooby
    Commented May 14, 2015 at 23:06

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You're looking for an event, not a hook to do this in 8.x

Specifically, you're looking for the RESPONSE event, see \Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\AnonymousUserResponseSubscriber for an example. Create a class like that, register it in yourmodule.services.yml and then do whatever you want with the $response object.

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  • How do I create a class like this? Do you mean I would define the class in my .module file? or is it in the service.yml file? I am not sure what all is necessary in the module.services.yml file?
    – BrandenB171
    Commented May 18, 2015 at 14:48
  • You need to create the class in the src/ folder of your module, according to the PSR-4 standards, like every other class as well. In services.yml, you need to register it. Look at core.services.yml, search for AnonymousUserResponseSubscriber, then use the definition there as an example.
    – Berdir
    Commented May 18, 2015 at 15:23

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