Static file with HTTP headers

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Is it possible to save a static html file with built in http headers ? So that putting it on any server will work including the http headers?

If so how?

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For Apache, there is the module mod_asis, which does just that - reads the file and sends it on its merry way as a complete HTTP response.

This module is shipped with Apache by default, but you need to enable it first (see the docs, there's a reasonable example).

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Apache – How to Dump Entire HTTP Requests

I think what you want instead of Apache might be a packet analyzer, Also known as a packet sniffer. Two of the most popular ones are probably TCPDump and Wireshark, both of which are free and have versions for Windows and *nix operating systems. These will show you all traffic coming in on an interface, not just what Apache sees. But you can use filters to restrict to a specified port, such as 80 for http.

tcpdump:
The following command run from the server will show you all packets destined for port 80:

sudo tcpdump -s 0 -X 'tcp dst port 80'

The capital X switch dumps the payload in hex and ASCII. The s switch with 0 means to get the whole packet. 'tcp dst port 80' means to filter and only show packets destined for port 80 in the tcp header.

Wireshark:
For the more user friendly version, if you have a GUI running, consider wireshark (formally known as ethereal).

apache-2.2 – How to Send Content-Disposition Headers in Apache for Files

I have discovered that this does what I want:

<Location /textfiles>
    SetEnvIf Request_URI "^.*/([^/]*)$" FILENAME=$1
    Header set "Content-disposition" "attachment; filename=%{FILENAME}e"
    UnsetEnv FILENAME
</Location>

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