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headerlint

Safe HTTP security header auditing with JSON and SARIF output

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Details

External ID
1398479171
Source
GITHUB
Company
—
Product
headerlint
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Sept. 30, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
8
Upvotes percentile
0.14045078527754465
Tags
cybersecurity, http-security-headers, python, sarif, security-audit, ssrf
Fetched at
Oct. 3, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Updated at
Oct. 3, 2026, 1:02 a.m.

Enrichment

Niche
developer tooling and language infrastructure
Vertical
Security
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
http security header auditing tool for developers
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes Headerlint is a command-line HTTP header security auditor that inspects response headers and outputs JSON/SARIF, which is a straightforward scripting task.

Competitors

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Attention rank: #612 of 794 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 336 days after the earliest competitor.

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