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From: Nicholas Sherlock <n.sherlock@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:38:54 +1300
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Subject: [users@httpd]  Re: mod_headers: Don't add a header if it is already
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Nicholas Sherlock wrote:
> However, some new pages I am now developing are cache-aware, and supply 
> their own Cache-Control headers which should not include the "private" 
> modifier. Is it possible for mod_headers to not create this header if 
> the response (from PHP) already includes a Cache-Control header? 

I found one solution. In my cache-aware PHP pages I can use this code:

apache_setenv("Cache_Aware","yes");

Then mod_headers can look for the environment variable:

Header append Cache-Control "private" env=!Cache_Aware

However, this is suboptimal. Once I eventually fix all of my pages to be 
properly cache-aware, the mod_header directive which adds 'private' will 
no longer be useful, and I'll have a lot of PHP code which needlessly 
sets an Apache environment variable. It'd be great if you could easily 
check for an existing _response_ header in mod_headers!

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock


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