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Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 13:10:04 -0600
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From: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>
Subject: Re: Apache adding content-type to responses without one
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I disagree entirely.  You should be -able- to do so, without being forced
to do so.

The simple fix is not to define the default content type in the root of
the <Proxy > directive.  However, there seems no 'trivial' way to do so,
unless <Proxy *> would accomplish this.

If we don't support a 'none' option to the default content type directive,
we aught to do so.

Bill

At 11:12 PM 2/28/2002, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Recently someone noted that certain parts of Ebay didn't work via
>mod_proxy. This was because the pages in question had no content-type
>header, and Apache was adding a default header "text/plain", which
>caused browsers to display the source of the page.
>
>The resulting discussion said that proxy should just send through no
>content-type header if one was not supplied, and let the borwser handle
>the brokenness. However - the code that actually adds the content-type
>when it is missing sits in make_content_type() in http_protocol.c.
>
>So - the fix seems to be to change make_content_type() to return NULL if
>the incoming content-type is missing. But - will this break anything
>else...?
>
>Regards,
>Graham
>--
>-----------------------------------------
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>                                         over Bourbon Street
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