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<p class="apache">Apache HTTP Server Version 2.5</p>
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request and response headers. Headers can be merged, replaced
or removed.</p>
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-<div id="quickview"><h3 class="directives">Directives</h3>
-<ul id="toc">
-<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#header">Header</a></li>
-<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#requestheader">RequestHeader</a></li>
-</ul>
-<h3>Topics</h3>
+<div id="quickview"><h3>Topics</h3>
<ul id="topics">
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#order">Order of Processing</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#early">Early and Late Processing</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#examples">Examples</a></li>
-</ul><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="#comments_section">Comments</a></li></ul></div>
+</ul><h3 class="directives">Directives</h3>
+<ul id="toc">
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#header">Header</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#requestheader">RequestHeader</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h3>Bugfix checklist</h3><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_2.4">httpd changelog</a></li><li><a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&list_id=144532&product=Apache%20httpd-2&query_format=specific&order=changeddate%20DESC%2Cpriority%2Cbug_severity&component=mod_headers">Known issues</a></li><li><a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Apache%20httpd-2&component=mod_headers">Report a bug</a></li></ul><h3>See also</h3>
+<ul class="seealso">
+<li><a href="#comments_section">Comments</a></li></ul></div>
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<h2><a name="order" id="order">Order of Processing</a></h2>
</li>
<li>
- Set the same header value under multiple non-exclusive conditions,
+ Set the same header value under multiple nonexclusive conditions,
but do not duplicate the value in the final header.
If all of the following conditions applied to a request (i.e.,
if the <code>CGI</code>, <code>NO_CACHE</code> and
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Configure HTTP response headers</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>Header [<var>condition</var>] add|append|echo|edit|edit*|merge|set|setifempty|unset|note
-<var>header</var> [[expr=]<var>value</var> [<var>replacement</var>
-[early|env=[!]<var>varname</var>|expr=<var>expression</var>]]]
+<var>header</var> [[expr=]<var>value</var> [<var>replacement</var>]
+[early|env=[!]<var>varname</var>|expr=<var>expression</var>]]
</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_headers</td></tr>
-<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>SetIfEmpty available in 2.4.7 and later, expr=value
+<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>SetIfEmpty available in 2.4.7 and later, expr=value
available in 2.4.10 and later</td></tr>
</table>
<p>This directive can replace, merge or remove HTTP response
<p> The optional <var>condition</var> argument determines which internal
table of responses headers this directive will operate against. Despite the
- name, the default value of <code>onsuccess</code> does <em>not</em> limit
+ name, the default value of <code>onsuccess</code> does <em>not</em> limit
an <var>action</var> to responses with a 2xx status code. Headers set under
this condition are still used when, for example, a request is <em>successfully</em>
proxied or generated by CGI, even when they have generated a failing status code.</p>
<p>When your action is a function of an existing header, you may need to specify
a condition of <code>always</code>, depending on which internal table the
original header was set in. The table that corresponds to <code>always</code> is
- used for locally generated error responses as well as successful responses.
+ used for locally generated error responses as well as successful responses.
Note also that repeating this directive with both conditions makes sense in
some scenarios because <code>always</code> is not a superset of
<code>onsuccess</code> with respect to existing headers:</p>
<code>onsuccess</code> condition.</li>
</ul>
- <p>Separately from the <var>condition</var> paramete described above, you
- can limit an action based on HTTP status codes for e.g. proxied or CGI
+ <p>Separately from the <var>condition</var> parameter described above, you
+ can limit an action based on HTTP status codes for e.g. proxied or CGI
requests. See the example that uses %{REQUEST_STATUS} in the section above.</p>
<p>The action it performs is determined by the first
<dt><code>setifempty</code></dt>
<dd>The request header is set, but only if there is no previous header
- with this name.<br />
- Available in 2.4.7 and later.</dd>
+ with this name.
+ <div class="note">
+ The Content-Type header is a special use case since there might be
+ the chance that its value have been determined but the header is not part
+ of the response when <code>setifempty</code> is evaluated.
+ It is safer to use <code>set</code> for this use case like in the
+ following example:
+ <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">Header set Content-Type "text/plain" "expr=-z %{CONTENT_TYPE}"</pre>
+
+ </div></dd>
<dt><code>unset</code></dt>
<dd>The response header of this name is removed, if it exists.
<code>add</code> a <var>value</var> is specified as the next argument.
If <var>value</var>
contains spaces, it should be surrounded by double quotes.
- <var>value</var> may be a character string, a string containing
- <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_headers.html">mod_headers</a></code> specific format specifiers (and character
+ <var>value</var> may be a character string, a string containing
+ <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_headers.html">mod_headers</a></code> specific format specifiers (and character
literals), or an <a href="../expr.html">ap_expr</a> expression prefixed
with <em>expr=</em></p>
-
+
<p> The following format specifiers are supported in <var>value</var>:</p>
<table class="bordered"><tr class="header"><th>Format</th><th>Description</th></tr>
more efficient than <code>%s</code>.</p>
</div>
+ <div class="note"><h3>Note on expression values</h3>
+ <p> When the value parameter uses the <a href="../expr.html">ap_expr</a>
+ parser, some expression syntax will differ from examples that evaluate
+ <em>boolean</em> expressions such as <If>:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>The starting point of the grammar is 'string' rather than 'expr'.</li>
+ <li>Function calls use the %{funcname:arg} syntax rather than
+ funcname(arg).</li>
+ <li>Multi-argument functions are not currently accessible from this
+ starting point</li>
+ <li>Quote the entire parameter, such as
+ <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">Header set foo-checksum "expr=%{md5:foo}"</pre>
+
+ </li>
+
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+
<p>For <code>edit</code> there is both a <var>value</var> argument
which is a <a class="glossarylink" href="../glossary.html#regex" title="see glossary">regular expression</a>,
and an additional <var>replacement</var> string. As of version 2.4.7
<dt><code>expr=<var>expression</var></code></dt>
<dd>The directive is applied if and only if <var>expression</var>
evaluates to true. Details of expression syntax and evaluation are
- documented in the <a href="../expr.html">ap_expr</a> documentation.</dd>
+ documented in the <a href="../expr.html">ap_expr</a> documentation.
+ <pre class="prettyprint lang-config"># This delays the evaluation of the condition clause compared to <If>
+Header always set CustomHeader my-value "expr=%{REQUEST_URI} =~ m#^/special_path.php$#"</pre>
+
+ </dd>
</dl>
<p>Except in <a href="#early">early</a> mode, the
<code class="directive">Header</code> directives are processed just
- before the response is sent to the network. These means that it is
+ before the response is sent to the network. This means that it is
possible to set and/or override most headers, except for some headers
- added by the HTTP header filter. Prior to 2.2.12, it was not possible
+ added by the HTTP header filter. Prior to 2.2.12, it was not possible
to change the Content-Type header with this directive.</p>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Configure HTTP request headers</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>RequestHeader add|append|edit|edit*|merge|set|setifempty|unset
-<var>header</var> [[expr=]<var>value</var> [<var>replacement</var>
-[early|env=[!]<var>varname</var>|expr=<var>expression</var>]]]
+<var>header</var> [[expr=]<var>value</var> [<var>replacement</var>]
+[early|env=[!]<var>varname</var>|expr=<var>expression</var>]]
</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_headers</td></tr>
-<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>SetIfEmpty available in 2.4.7 and later, expr=value
+<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>SetIfEmpty available in 2.4.7 and later, expr=value
available in 2.4.10 and later</td></tr>
</table>
<p>This directive can replace, merge, change or remove HTTP request
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