Bug 49807

Summary:	hard to force Content-Type header for non static files
Product:	Apache httpd-2	Reporter:	Eric Covener <covener>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Apache HTTPD Bugs Mailing List <bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	enhancement	Keywords:	MassUpdate
Priority:	P2
Version:	2.2.16
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description Eric Covener 2010-08-23 08:37:29 UTC

Generally, directives that manipulate types run early in request procesing and have their work undone by generators that call ap_set_content_type().  Meanwhile, mod_headers even as a filter runs before the HTTP header output filter pulls r->content_type and adds it as a header.

It would be nice if e.g. ForceType could be consulted somewhere prior to the header going from the internal representation into the Content-Type header.

(reported on IRC as ForceType, RewriteRule .. [T=] and mod_headers can't change Content-Type of a proxied response.  Really applies to almost any non-core handler)

Comment 1 William A. Rowe Jr. 2018-11-07 21:08:42 UTC

Please help us to refine our list of open and current defects; this is a mass update of old and inactive Bugzilla reports which reflect user error, already resolved defects, and still-existing defects in httpd.

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