Set, append, or remove any header on the sites you choose. Add cookies, switch between saved profiles, and confirm every change — without touching a line of server code.
Built and maintained by an independent developer in the United States.
Every rule and profile lives in your browser. Nothing is ever sent to a server.
No trackers, no analytics, no remote code. Just the tool.
Free to use, released under the MIT License. No accounts, no paywalls.
Works wherever Chrome runs — macOS, Windows, Linux, and ChromeOS.
Six focused tools, one small popup. Each rule applies instantly and only where you tell it to.
Inject an environment flag, spoof a forwarded IP for an edge test, or strip a header your client keeps sending. Rules take effect the moment you save.

Unblock CORS against a nonprod API, drop a strict Content-Security-Policy while you debug, or simulate cache behavior — all evaluated against the modified headers, so the browser actually honors them.

Append a cookie to the outgoing header, or write a real one into the browser jar for a whole domain — a true override you can see in DevTools. Perfect for dropping an auth token onto a staging endpoint.

Scope any rule to the hosts and paths you choose. Include the sites a rule should touch, exclude the ones it must never touch — with simple wildcards or full RE2 regex.
||api.example.com/*
Keep a staging profile, a CORS-testing profile, and a clean one — each with its own headers, cookies, and filters. Only the active profile runs; the rest stay saved and silent.

The DevTools Network panel shows headers before modification, so it can't confirm a rule worked. Verify fetches the current tab and shows the real, post-modification response headers — your rules highlighted.

HeaderForge has no server, no analytics, and no telemetry. Profiles, rules, and cookies are stored only in your browser's local extension storage — and deleted when you remove it.
Released under the MIT License. Free to use, study, and modify. No sign-up, no license key, no upsell.
HeaderForge is a Chrome extension, available for Google Chrome only for now. It runs on any desktop OS Chrome supports.
Install it, open the popup, add a rule. That's the whole learning curve.
macOS · Windows · Linux · ChromeOS — anywhere Chrome runs