Netlify does not send custom headers in a redirect file

Support
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Hey guys, I’ve configured an url (which redirects to the main page as you can see). I’m using the latest version of Jekyll, and inside the root project file I have netlify.toml which basically does this:

[[redirects]]
from = “/ab”
to = “/”
headers = {X-From = “Netlify543”}

Now, the problem here is that Netlify DOES NOT SEND the custom header. I’ve used Fiddler to inspect the header and didn’t see the custom header anywhere in the 301 response.

I thought it’s CloudFlare (disabled it) and the same problem persists.

I’ve basically followed the support topic on redirects and didn’t find anything wrong. This is a very simple test I wanted to do with custom headers, and everything is okay (the latest deploy says that 1 redirect was processed successfully), except this.

What could be the issue?:

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yes, you’ll need to specify a hostname if you want us to send headers. doing a rewrite from /something to /somethingelse is a “rewrite” - not a proxy - and no “connection” is made, no headers can be sent. You could do instead:

[[redirects]]
  from = "/ab"
  to = "https://mysite/"
  headers = {X-From = "Netlify543"}

Do make sure your quote marks are " and not the “smart quotes” in your codeblock, please!

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Oh my, I checked my code, yeah, I’ve used double quotes. For a moment I felt like your username.