How to remove a cookie in Apache

Question

I need to remove a cookie from the HTTP request that gets to the server. Doing it on the client (that writes this cookie) or on the server (that reads it) is not an option.

Answer 1

Apache mod_rewrite allows manipulation of URLs but not of HTTP headers, however 'mod_headers' will let you do that.

So, you could use:

RequestHeader unset Cookie

This will strip all cookies from the request. I'm not sure if its possible to remove just a particular cookie using this technique.

Alternatively, you can stop cookies being passed back to the client using:

Header unset Set-Cookie

if that's more appropriate.