Re: Problem with mod_headers ?

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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:48 PM, André Warnier <aw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I am a bit at my wit's end here.
>
> Using Apache 2.2.3 under Suse Linux, with a mod_jk re-director to Tomcat for
> certain links, such as the one of which question below.
>
> I am using a Tomcat java application which unfortunately sets the
> Content-Type response header wrongly : it says "text/html;
> charset=iso-8859-1" instead of "text/html; charset=iso-8859-2", and there is
> no way I can change that application itself.
> So I am trying to rectify that header after-the-fact, using mod_headers.
> Unfortunately, it does not seem to work.
>
> I have this Vhost configuration (snippet) :
>
> SetEnvIf REQUEST_URI "/servlet\.[^\.]+$" is-jk
> Header always set Content-Type: "text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2" env=is-jk
> Header always set Test-Header: "VHost level" env=is-jk
>
> <LocationMatch "/servlet\.[^.]+$">
>  SetHandler jakarta-servlet
>  Header always set Content-Type: "text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2"
>  Header always set Test-Header: "Location level"
> </LocationMatch>
>
> I capture the HTTP headers resulting from a request, using the
> LiveHttpHeaders plugin of Firefox, as follows (sorry for the email
> wrap-around, and sensitive bits edited-out with XXX):
>
> POST /starweb/XXX/servlet.starweb HTTP/1.1
> Host: XXX.XXX.XXX
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.15)
> Gecko/20080623 Firefox/2.0.0.15
> Accept:
> text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
> Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.7,de-de;q=0.3
> Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
> Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
> Keep-Alive: 300
> Connection: keep-alive
> Referer:
> http://XXXX/starweb/wideoteka/servlet.starweb?path=wideoteka/wideoteka-sso.web&auth=y
> Cookie: XXXX, JSESSIONID=3AD2CE2435CDCC2CFD3C90D7DF23868B
> Pragma: no-cache
> Cache-Control: no-cache
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> Content-Length: 273
>
> HTTP/1.x 200 OK
> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:30:33 GMT
> Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Linux/SUSE) mod_jk/1.2.28-dev-727724 mod_perl/2.0.2
> Perl/v5.8.8
> Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
> Test-Header: Location level
> Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
> Pragma: no-cache
> Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
> Connection: Keep-Alive
> Transfer-Encoding: chunked
>
>
> As can be seen above, the "Test-Header" that I set with mod_headers comes
> out perfectly, from the Location section.
> But the Content-Type header, which I believe should be set in the same exact
> conditions, does not.
>
> Does anyone have an idea why ?

Headers generated by Apache late during processing (read: after
mod_headers acts!) will overlay what you've set.  Things like
Content-Encoding, Content-Type, Server, etc.

Maybe ForceType would convince the piece of the core Apache to set the
proper header while it's doing its work.

-- 
Eric Covener
covener@xxxxxxxxx

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