How to suppress the Server: HTTP header

Usually, Jetty will send the HTTP Server header on replies. It looks something like this:

HTTP/1.x 200 OK

Content-Type: text/html

Content-Length: 2155

Last-Modified: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:25:50 GMT

Connection: keep-alive

Server: Jetty(6.0.x)  <--------- the server header

You can supress the sending of this header by uncommenting the following line in the etc/jetty.xml file from the distribution:

<Set name="sendServerVersion">true</Set>

You might want to do this to heighten the security of your site by hiding details of the software you are using. Of course, this will do nothing good for Jetty's Netcraft rating .