I forgot to mention that I use Tomcat v6.0.20

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:10, Yoryos <valo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
> looking at HttpServletResponse 
> javadoc<http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/2.2/javadoc/javax/servlet/http/HttpServletResponse.html>
>  I
> can understand that the difference between setHeader and addHeader is that
> the first one overrides previous setted one (if any) and the second one just
> ads the new value to an existing one (or create an new one if it doesn't
> exists). I use the second in order to add to my responses Cache-Control
> headers.
>
> With something like:
> response.addHeader('Cache-Control', 'public');
> response.addHeader('Cache-Control', 'stale-if-error=xxx');
> response.addHeader('Cache-Control', 'max-age=xxx');
> response.addHeader('Cache-Control', 's-maxage=xxx');
>
> I would expect an one line response header like Cache-Control: public,
> stale-if-error=xxx, max-age=xxx, s-maxage=xxx but what I get is three
> Cache-Control headers:
>
> *$ telnet localhost 80*
> *HEAD / HTTP/1.1*
> *Host: some.host.com\n\n*
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Cache-Control: stale-if-error=172800
> Cache-Control: public
> Cache-Control: max-age=60
> Cache-Control: s-maxage=40
> ETag: "custom-etag"
> Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8
> Transfer-Encoding: chunked
> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:00:49 GMT
> Server: CustomServerName
>
> Is this the expected behavior? I've never seen such a response header
> before. Should I issue a bug?
>
>

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