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cweiske
Asked: 2015-11-07 15:26:00 +0800 CST

lighttpd: remove charset=UTF-8 from content type

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lighttpd 1.4.31-4+deb7u3 automatically adds ;charset=UTF-8 to the content-type of .html and .php files.

How can I remove that?

Setting the content type in PHP itself does not help; lighttpd still adds the charset parameter - as soon as the mime type begins with text/.

Removing

 include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl"

from my config does also not help.

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2 Answers

  1. Lighttpd doesn't touch the Content-Type returned by a backend.

    The charset is already set by php, see ini.default-charset

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  2. You need to edit /etc/php.ini and add this line:

    default_charset = ""

    They changed the behavior recently to automatically add UTF-8. What's worse, they auto-add Content-type[sic] instead of the correct capitalized ...Type which causes the header to get ignored in some versions of Chrome.

    The decision obviously breaks configs with different encodings contained in the HTML itself.

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