How to return a custom HTTP status code reason phrase

1. Caddy version (caddy version):

v2.3.0 h1:fnrqJLa3G5vfxcxmOH/+kJOcunPLhSBnjgIvjXV/QTA=

(but originally noticed with same result in v1.0.3 (h1:i9gRhBgvc5ifchwWtSe7pDpsdS9+Q0Rw9oYQmYUTw1w=)

2. How I run Caddy:

Docker with php-fpm: GitHub - ComaVN/caddy-http-status-poc

(Same result when using the abiosoft/caddy:php-no-stats docker image)

a. System environment:

Docker version 20.10.5 on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, using the caddy:2.3.0-alpine image

b. Command:

See the README:

docker build --target caddy --tag caddy-http-status-poc . \
    && docker run --rm -p8080:8080 caddy-http-status-poc
curl -v http://localhost:8080

c. Service/unit/compose file:

#!/bin/sh

set -e

kill_handler() {
    echo "kill signal received"
    kill -TERM "$child"
}
trap kill_handler TERM INT

php-fpm7

caddy run --config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile --adapter caddyfile &

child=$! 
wait "$child"

d. My complete Caddyfile or JSON config:

:8080

# Set this path to your site's directory.

root * /srv

# Enable the static file server.

file_server

php_fastcgi localhost:9000

3. The problem I’m having:

I use Caddy to mock the API of certain hardware devices, for use in dev & test. This particular piece of hardware decided to start returning non-standard HTTP status lines (eg. HTTP/1.1 400 key expired). This means my mock needs to return the same non-standard reasons, so I can properly test my code.

However, Caddy seems to always return the reason-phrase from the RFC, ie. Bad Request, regardless of what header my PHP writes.

When using PHP’s own dev webserver (php -S) or nginx, the header is “properly” returned as-is.

4. Error messages and/or full log output:

None, really. See the README

5. What I already tried:

I have tried using different php functions to return the header (ie. http_response_code or header), and different web servers. I really like Caddy’s easy TLS support tho…

I have looked at handle_errors and such, but that seems to be more about changing the status code & body, not the reason-phrase.

6. Links to relevant resources:

Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s possible. Caddy uses Golang’s HTTP stack under the hood, which abstracts this away.

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