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Remove Unwanted HTTP Response Headers

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Enamul_Khaleque
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Mar 14, 2019
The purpose of this blog post is to discuss how to remove unwanted HTTP response headers from the response. Typically we have 3 response headers which many people want to remove for security reas...
Updated Mar 02, 2023
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abubakarriaz
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Sep 08, 2020

it works fine on 200 status code
on 400 error, server header shows "Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0"
on 404 error, server header still shows "Microsoft-IIS/8.5"
on 200, server header shows "Unknown" as per my value in rewrite module.
my registry entry is DisableServerHeader = 1
why it is not working? I am using windows server 2012 R2 with IIS 8.5