C# - HttpWebResponse Header Not Being Set

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I'm attempting to set the content-length of my outgoing response headers but my code seems to have no effect on the headers.

    web_op_context.OutgoingResponse.Headers.Set("Content-Type", http_req.content_type);
    web_op_context.OutgoingResponse.Headers.Add("Content-Length", "10");
    web_op_context.OutgoingResponse.Headers.Add("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
    web_op_context.OutgoingResponse.Headers.Remove("Server");
    web_op_context.OutgoingResponse.Headers.Remove("X-Powered-By");

The line for adding content-length and removing "Server" and "X-Powered-By" seems to not be rendering any change in my outgoing response headers.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 02 '12 at 18:51

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The Server and X-Powered By messages are being sent by IIS, not your code. You have to disable them in IIS prevent them from being sent.

answered Jul 02 '12 at 18:51

Josh

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 02 '12 at 19:43

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The server and Powered by headers are added outside of your code, by the server. I recently had to remove these because they were flagged in a security scan as warnings. Here is the link I used to remove them. Link i used.

answered Jul 02 '12 at 19:43

QueueHammer

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C# - HttpWebResponse Header Not Being Set

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