Plack::Middleware::RearrangeHeaders(3pm)

Plack::Middleware::RearrangeHeaders3pm

Reorder http headers for buggy clients

Usage

  use Plack::Builder;
  my $app = sub {
      return [ 200, [
          'Last-Modified' => 'Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:36:33 GMT',
          'Content-Type' => 'text/plain',
          'ETag' => 'foo bar',
      ], [ 'Hello Foo' ] ];
  };
  builder {
      enable "Plack::Middleware::RearrangeHeaders";
      $app;
  };

Overview

Plack::Middleware::RearrangeHeaders sorts HTTP headers based on "Good Practice" i.e.:

  # "Good Practice" order of HTTP message headers:
  #    - Response-Headers
  #    - Entity-Headers

to work around buggy clients like very old MSIE or broken HTTP proxy servers. Most clients today don't (and shouldn't) care about HTTP header order but if you're too pedantic or have some environments where you need to deal with buggy clients like above, this might be useful.

Releases

8 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 7 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7
  3. 8
  4. 9
  5. 10
  6. 11
  7. 12
  8. 13

Author

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa

From libplack-perl 1.0051-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.