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Glenn Slaven
Asked: 2013-09-30 16:34:02 +0800 CST

Can I set a content type if the origin doesn't send one in mod_proxy?

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I have a misbehaving origin that when it has an error page it is not setting a content-type header. This is then a problem as we're sitting behind Edgecast and they default to application/octet-stream which causes browsers to try and download the file. Is there any way I can get apache to set a content type response header if there isn't one?

apache-2.2

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  1. There is the Default-Type config option: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#defaulttype

    Not sure if you can use it depending on your failure scenario, but it's probably worth looking at along with custom error documents: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/core.html#errordocument

    There's a bit at the bottom of that to sue it with mod_proxy

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