How do delete a HTTP response header?

Question

I have a situation where one of the response headers Content-Disposition has to be removed. So I thought of writing a servlet filter to do this. But I realized

Answer 1

This does not work for me using Spring 4. I'm trying to strip out the Expires response header. For every page. Like so:

public class CachingFilter implements Filter {
    private final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(getClass());

    public CachingFilter() {}
    public void destroy() {}

    @Override
    public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {
        logger.debug("doFilter()");
        chain.doFilter(request, new HttpServletResponseWrapper((HttpServletResponse) response) {
            public void setHeader(String name, String value) {
                logger.debug("setHeader(" + name + ","+value+")");

                if (!name.equalsIgnoreCase("Expires")) {
                    super.setHeader(name, value);
                }
            }
        });
    }

    public void init(FilterConfig fConfig) throws ServletException {}
}

And here is how I add the filter:

public class AppConfig implements WebApplicationInitializer {
    private static final String DISPATCHER_SERVLET_NAME = "dispatcher";
    private static final String DISPATCHER_SERVLET_MAPPING = "/";

    @Override
    public void onStartup(ServletContext servletContext) throws ServletException {
        AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext rootContext = new AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext();
        rootContext.register(AppContext.class);

        ServletRegistration.Dynamic dispatcher = servletContext.addServlet(DISPATCHER_SERVLET_NAME, new DispatcherServlet(rootContext));
        dispatcher.setLoadOnStartup(1);
        dispatcher.addMapping(DISPATCHER_SERVLET_MAPPING);

        EnumSet dispatcherTypes = EnumSet.of(DispatcherType.REQUEST, DispatcherType.FORWARD);

        FilterRegistration.Dynamic noCache = servletContext.addFilter("noCacheFilter", new CachingFilter());
        noCache.addMappingForUrlPatterns(dispatcherTypes, true, "/*");

        servletContext.addListener(new ContextLoaderListener(rootContext));
    }
}

setHeader() being called for Expires and Cache-Control, but I can't override the Expires filter value, or the Cache-Control value. I can add to the Cache-Control value. It turns into an array of values if I call setHeader on Cache-Control. But I need to delete the header.