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meleager
Asked: 2010-03-18 12:10:36 +0800 CST

Need to add request headers to every request in Apache

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I'm trying to add a header value to every request via Apache (ver 2.2). I've edited my VirtualHost to include the following vaiations: (I've tried both RequestHeader and Header, add and set in all of these cases)

RequestHeader set X-test_url "Test"

or

<Directory />
  RequestHeader set X-test_url "Test"
</Directory>

or

<Location ~ "/*" >
  RequestHeader set X-test_url "Test"
</Location>

It's hard to explain how I've gotten to this point, but I have to get this done in Apache. Again I'm trying to add the header value to every request. Thanks.

apache-2.2 requestheader

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    So your first ought work alright. I've just tested the following. On a Red Hat system, I added RequestHeader add X-LocalHeader "Headers For the Win" to my httpd.conf file.

    Then, I put together a quick Python script to dump my environment:

    
#!/usr/bin/python

import os
print 'Content-type: text/plain'
print

for tup in os.environ.items():
    print '%s: %s' % tup

    Finally, an Apache restart and a curl yields the following:

    [jeff@marvin ~]$ curl http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.py
HTTP_ACCEPT: */*
HTTP_USER_AGENT: curl/7.19.7 
SERVER_NAME: localhost
REMOTE_ADDR: 127.0.0.1
SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1
SCRIPT_FILENAME: /var/www/cgi-bin/test.py
REMOTE_PORT: 42551
SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/2.2.13 (Fedora)
SERVER_ADMIN: root@localhost
SCRIPT_NAME: /cgi-bin/test.py
SERVER_SIGNATURE: Apache/2.2.13 

REQUEST_METHOD: GET
HTTP_HOST: localhost
SERVER_PORT: 80
GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1
QUERY_STRING: 
PATH: /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
REQUEST_URI: /cgi-bin/test.py
HTTP_X_LOCALHEADER: Headers For the Win
SERVER_ADDR: 127.0.0.1
DOCUMENT_ROOT: /var/www/html

    As you can see, I have an 'HTTP_X_LOCALHEADER' value set, which corresponds to the header we added earlier. It looks like you had it right, is it still not working?

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