Re: Apache2 rewriting HTTP headers

[Lucas Brasilino <lucas.brasilino@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Axel-Stephane!

> I see why you can suspect Apache httpd of setting these headers, but AFAIK from having used Apache 2.0.x
> and mod_proxy for a number of years, Apache does not "rewrite" 
headers unless you do so explicitly in the
> configuration.

I agree but, really, I can't figure out. Theres no such directives in
my configuration. But I gonna check out by the third time. The odd
thing is that other files, like GIF and JPG which also backend server
generates the 'Cache-Control' this rewrite doesn't happens.

> You will note that in the first case the application replies HTTP/1.0 and in
> the second, HTTP/1.1. Did you use wget in both cases ?

Yes, I did. Maybe due a 'KeepAlive On' in apache....

By the way, wget uses HTTP 1.0 with a 'Connection' header. it is a
violation, isn't it?

> Could you possibly snoop/sniff the traffic apache->server using snoop/tcpdump/ethereal ?
> That could shed some light on who sets the headers the way the client receives them.
> It would however require that you install the reverse proxy and the application on different servers.

Here comes wget->apache connection:

GET /srh/pos-graduacao/docs-inscricao/ficha_de_inscricao.pdf HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: Wget/1.9.1
Host:  myfrontendserver.org
Accept: */*
Connection: Keep-Alive

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:01:23 GMT
Server: Zope/(Zope 2.9.8-final, python 2.4.4, linux2) ZServer/1.1 
Plone/2.5.3-final
Content-Length: 49665
X-Cache-Headers-Set-By: CachingPolicyManager: 
/intranets/restrito/caching_policy_manager
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Expires: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:06:25 GMT
X-Caching-Rule-Id: downloads
Cache-Control: -
Content-Type: application/pdf
X-Header-Set-Id: 10
Via: 1.0 myfrontendserver.org
Pragma: -
X-Cluster-Server: plutao
Connection: close

Here comes the apache->server connection:

 GET 
/VirtualHostBase/http/mybackendserver.org:80/intranets/restrito/VirtualHostRoot/srh/pos-graduacao/docs-inscricao/ficha_de_incricao.pdf 
HTTP/1.1
 Host: localhost:9080
 User-Agent: Wget/1.9.1
 Accept: */*
 Max-Forwards: 10
 Via: 1.0 myfrontendserver.org
 X-Forwarded-For: AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD
 X-Forwarded-Host: myfrontendserver.org
 X-Forwarded-Server: myfrontendserver.org

 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 Server: Zope/(Zope 2.9.8-final, python 2.4.4, linux2) ZServer/1.1 
Plone/2.5.3-final
 Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:36:26 GMT
 Content-Length: 49665
 X-Cache-Headers-Set-By: CachingPolicyManager: 
/intranets/restrito/caching_policy_manager
 Accept-Ranges: bytes
 Expires: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:41:26 GMT
 X-Caching-Rule-Id: downloads
 Cache-Control: max-age=300, must-revalidate
 Content-Type: application/pdf
 X-Header-Set-Id: 10

Thanks a lot, regards
Lucas Brasilino


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