Configure Apache with a htaccess file to strip out unneeded respond-headers

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For ultimate speed, I want my Apache server strip unneeded headers from the response. Currently, the headers looks like this (excluding the status header):

Connection:Keep-Alive
Content-Length:200
Content-Type:text/html
Date:Sat, 15 May 2010 16:28:37 GMT
Keep-Alive:timeout=5, max=100
Server:Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l DAV/2 PHP/5.3.1 Phusion_Passenger/2.2.7
X-Powered-By:PHP/5.3.1

Which I want to be like:

Connection:Keep-Alive
Content-Type:text/html
Keep-Alive:timeout=5, max=100

I tried this:

Header unset Date
Header unset Server
Header unset X-Powered-By
Header unset Content-Length
Header unset X-Pad

But the server and date and content-length headers are still being sent.

How can I configure this in a .htaccess file? Thanks

In what way would that improve what kind of performance? – andol May 15 '10 at 16:35 — andol, May 15 '10 at 16:35
@andol It's not much, but it uses less bandwith. – May 15 '10 at 16:36 — , May 15 '10 at 16:36
Yes, and in relation to the actual content you are serving? – andol May 15 '10 at 17:03 — andol, May 15 '10 at 17:03

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 15 '10 at 16:41

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you could set ServerSignature Off and potentially avoid /that/ particular line.

and expose_php = Off in your php.ini to remove that line.

answered May 15 '10 at 16:41

cpbills

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 21 '10 at 10:24

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Date is required in HTTP/1.1.

You also can't remove Content-Length without switching to chunked transfer encoding or downgrading to HTTP/1.0 without keep-alive (but that's opposite of "ultimate speed").

answered May 21 '10 at 10:24

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Configure Apache with a htaccess file to strip out unneeded respond-headers

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