Headers in a proxy response that are greater than 8K are truncated, but still returns a 200. As header data is being lost, I would expect a HTTP 500 response instead of a 200. In the example below, a 200 is being returned even though ~1000 bytes are being lost from X-Test-Header-1. Sample config: <VirtualHost *:80> ProxyPass "/test" "http://localhost:8080" ProxyPassReverse "/test" "http://localhost:8080" </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:8080> Header set X-Test-Header-1 "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA..." # large header > 8KB </VirtualHost> Request/response: $ curl -sD - http://localhost/test -o /dev/null HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:46:37 GMT Server: Apache/2.5.1-dev (Unix) Last-Modified: Sun, 06 Nov 2016 05:34:43 GMT ETag: "2d-5409b43abe2c0" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 45 X-Test-Header-1: AAAA... [truncated] Content-Type: text/html Original header size: $ curl -sD - http://localhost:8080 -o /dev/null | grep X-Test-Header-1 | wc -c 9020 Proxied header size: $ curl -sD - http://localhost/test -o /dev/null | grep X-Test-Header-1 | wc -c 8019