Question

i mean the HTTP/1.1 xxx yyyyyyy

header i can modify all others with mod_headers but want to be able to return a status 200 for 403 error pages to a particular user-agent that dosn’t display the text of my 403 pages {it displays an alternate page}

just asking if anyone knows an env-var or header name i can alter in apache.conf to alter this header in any way {once i have that i can work out the making it user-agent specific bits

Answer 1

You could set up a php script for your 403 error page and modify the header with that script:

Put a line like this in your .htaccess or Apache configuration file:

ErrorDocument 403 /path/to/your/error/script.php

And the following in said php file:

<?php if($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] == 'FooBot 1.2') {   header('HTTP/1.0 200 OK'); } ?> 

Or do the same thing in your preferred language.