Hi Tim,

That should be possible as well:

  <rest:response>
    <http:response status="{ ... }" message="{ ... }"/>
  </rest:response>

Cheers,
Christian

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Tim Thompson <timathom@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Christian,
>
> Yes, it does. The only issue is that there doesn't seem to be a way to set
> the HTTP status and message via web:response-header, is that right? This
> would be a great feature to have :)
>
> Tim
>
> --
> Tim A. Thompson
> Discovery Metadata Librarian
> Yale University Library
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tim,
>>
>> I am glad to hear the response header output does its job.
>>
>> As the function does nothing else than creating a response header
>> (unfortunately with this standard caching directive – I think I will
>> remove it along with BaseX 8.7), you could try to replace your
>> response elements with the function’s result. Does this help?
>>
>> Christian
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 9:21 PM, Tim Thompson <timathom@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Using the web:response-header() function from the BaseX Web Module seems
>> > to
>> > work for overriding default headers
>> > (http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Web_Module#web:response-header). I do wonder
>> > why
>> > the behavior differs between this function and directly using a
>> > rest:response element. Shouldn't these two be equivalent?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Tim
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Tim A. Thompson
>> > Discovery Metadata Librarian
>> > Yale University Library
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Tim Thompson <timathom@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> Is it possible to overwrite default HTTP headers in RESTXQ? I am
>> >> running
>> >> BaseX in Tomcat 7 and have set the authmethod param set to "Custom." I
>> >> wanted to define my own WWW-Authenticate header for Digest
>> >> authentication. I
>> >> tried something like this:
>> >>
>> >> <http:header
>> >>         name="WWW-Authenticate"
>> >>         value="{
>> >>           ``[Digest realm="BaseX",
>> >>                     qop="auth, auth-int",
>> >>                     algorithm=MD5,
>> >>                     nonce=`{hash:md5(random:uuid())}`]``
>> >>         }"/>
>> >>
>> >> (in a custom response, as specified in
>> >> http://docs.basex.org/wiki/RESTXQ#Custom_Response).
>> >>
>> >> However, the WWW-Authenticate header only returns a value of Custom
>> >> realm="BaseX" no matter what I do in the custom RESTXQ response.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance,
>> >> Tim
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Tim A. Thompson
>> >> Discovery Metadata Librarian
>> >> Yale University Library
>> >>
>> >
>
>