How to unset header in nginx module

[Tsukasa Hamano]

Hi Maxim,

Thank you for your advice.

At Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:32:23 +0400,
Maxim Dounin wrote:
>
> > Should I reconstruct list of headers_in.headers?
> > Or, should I modify http main module that to avoid sending null header?
> > Or, Is there any better(faster) way?
>
> You shouldn't touch r->headers_in at all.  It represents headers
> got from client, and it's incorrect to change them.
>
> Instead, to restrict headers passed to backends you should use
> functionality provided by relevant backend modules, e.g. with
> proxy_pass use
>
>     proxy_set_header X-Some-Header "";
>

I want to modify and unset header based on client request. Apache can
do it. Is there a plan to make something like apr_table_unset()?

I found the following code:
https://github.com/agentzh/headers-more-nginx-module/blob/master/src/ngx_http_headers_more_util.c
ngx_http_headers_more_rm_header()

I think I have no choise other than this code. but It looks
inefficient and slow.
Perhaps we can give meaning to key.len = 0 is unset flag, because
empty header name is not permitted by RFC.

Thanks for your comment.

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