Remove Content-Type header in apache

Question

How to remove header content-type in apache ?

The following code does not work

header_remove('content-type');

Yvoneyvonne

Answer 1

Try this.

header("content-type: none");

I don't know why, but it's worked for me.

I cannot find any reference mentioned about this. but it's simply removed the content-type from header for me. It' may be apache's bug or PHP's bug. So try it and use it with careful.

Granulite

Answer 2

Try

<?php
header('Content-Type:');

This completely removed the Content-Type header from the response. Like you, using header_remove() didn't do a thing and Hereblur's answer left me with Content-Type: none in the response.

Kesselring

Doesn't work, header still stubbornly gets sent. What's your setup? – Bowling

PHP 5.5.14, Apache 2.4.9, Drupal 7.34 — What's your setup? If you're using a framework of some sort it may be trying to be smart about setting the headers. – Kesselring

I'm not on a framework. I've got a fresh PHP installation (Win 8.1) and am running the built-in web server (no Apache). – Bowling

Unfortunately, all I know about this is written in my answer. I would suggest posting a new question specific to PHP and the its built-in web server. – Kesselring

Answer 3

It depends on what php.ini directives you have, and what PHP you use (CLI, CGI, ...).

This answer is based on PHP 5.4, running in CGI.

Note in php.ini:

default_mimetype = text/html

That's the default value, that PHP sends as:

Content-Type: text/html

If you want to get rid of it, you have to remove the default value by creating the header again, then you can remove the header:

<?php
header('Content-Type: text/html');
header_remove('Content-Type');

Lyric

Answer 4

If you are using the bellow line and do not have access to php.ini:

#!/usr/local/bin/php

You can add -q at the end of it and the headers will be removed, because header_remove will not remove Content-type.

#!/usr/local/bin/php -q

Widener