Date: 27 Mar 1999 23:20:01 -0000
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From: Jarkko Saloranta <jjs@kpo.fi>
Subject: general/3912: Apache adds Content-Location with ProxyPass
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The following reply was made to PR general/3912; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jarkko Saloranta <jjs@kpo.fi>
To: lars@apache.org
Cc: apbugs@apache.org
Subject: general/3912: Apache adds Content-Location with ProxyPass
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 01:11:29 +0200 (EET)

 On 21 Feb 1999 lars@apache.org wrote:
 
 > Synopsis: Apache adds Content-Location with ProxyPass
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback
 > State-Changed-By: lars
 > State-Changed-When: Sat Feb 20 16:40:35 PST 1999
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > 
 > Try using "UseCanonicalName Off" on your backend-servers.
 
 I investigted this more. And you are right that the backend server adds
 that header.
 It adds when requesting an URI like: http://www.somesite.com/something/
 and it adds Content-Location: http://www.somesite.com/something/index.html
 
 The problem here is that in many cases these backend servers are not very
 configurable. I am unable to strip that Content-Location header with that
 backend-servers that sends it.
 
 Apache module mod_headers has the ability to unset http-headers, 
 but it seems that it won't work with ProxyPass.
 I added lines like this to my httpd.conf:
 
 ProxyPass /somelocation http://somesite/someplace/
 ProxyPassReverse /somelocation http://somesite/someplace/
 Header unset Content-Location
 
 Apache did not strip Content-Location header with this configuration
 
 
 I also tried this:
 
 <Location /somelocation>
 Header unset Content-Location
 </Location>
 
 But apache still did not strip Content-Location headers.
 
 
 So I would like to see mod_headers and ProxyPass working together
 
 
 --
 Jarkko Saloranta
 Kajaani Telephone company
 jarkko.saloranta@kpo.fi