Passing header from jaeger exporter

I am currently sending data using

OTEL_SERVICE_NAME='<service name>' OTEL_EXPORTER_JAEGER_ENDPOINT="http://<IP of  Backend>:14268/api/traces" opentelemetry-instrument -e jaeger python program.py

Is there a way to pass headers in the above command?

I am using HTTP to send data to otel-collector and want to pass a header with every request. OTLP has the option to pass headers but right now the OTLP exporter allows only GRPC communication. The Jaeger exporter supports HTTP but couldn’t find a way to pass headers.

Is there a way to achieve this using Jaeger, OTLP, or any other exporters?

[codeboten]

@ankitnayan is the request here to be able to pass custom headers to be exported to jaeger? if so I think the right place to suggest this would be in the specification repo so that all implementations are consistent.

[srikanthccv]

thanks for the clarification…the only possible way to do this right now seems to be via Otel-Collector, which can transmit in OTLP HTTP with headers right?

Yes