How to remove server/software information from apache http client response

Question

I wrote below sample program to check response of http

 public class CloseableHttpClientExmpl { public static void main(String[] args) { CloseableHttpClient client =HttpClients.custom().disableContentCompression().build(); HttpGet request = new HttpGet("http://localhost:8080/index.php"); CloseableHttpResponse response=null; try { response = client.execute(request); System.out.println(response); } catch (ClientProtocolException e1) { e1.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e1) { e1.printStackTrace(); } } }

The output/response is like below

HttpResponseProxy{HTTP/1.1 200 OK [Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 12:48:38 GMT, Server: Apache/2.4.18 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.0.2e PHP/7.0.8, X-Powered-By: PHP/7.0.8, Content-Length: 79, Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=99, Connection: Keep-Alive, Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8] ResponseEntityProxy{[Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8,Content-Length: 79,Chunked: false]}}

Now I want to know that How can I remove software informations like below from this response

Server: Apache/2.4.18 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.0.2e PHP/7.0.8, X-Powered-By: PHP/7.0.8

sauumum · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-11 14:47:40Z

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Server details mention below are sent by the server i.e. localhost in your case.

Server: Apache/2.4.18 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.0.2e PHP/7.0.8, X-Powered-By: PHP/7.0.8

You can disable 'Server' details sent as a part of the response in your server configuration. For windows server, using https://www.saotn.org/remove-iis-server-version-http-response-header/

answered Apr 11, 2019 at 14:47

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Manoj Kumar Dhakad Over a year ago

Is there a way to achieve the same through programming?

JohnXF Over a year ago

@ManojKumarDhakad Those values are headers in the response - they're not in the body of the response. As sauumum said, to stop the server sending them you need to change the configuration on the server. If on the client side - in your code - you are not interested in those values then just ignore the headers part of the response and look at the body.

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