Rename Kong latency Header

Installation/Setup
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Hi

We have an external company PEN testing out api gateway and one of suggestion was to disable kong specific headers.
There are two types of those:

  1. via: kong/0.13.0 - we removed it by using server_tokens = off this is good :+1:
  2. other two can be disabled but I find those very useful, ideally we would rename those :
    x-kong-proxy-latency: 77
    x-kong-upstream-latency: 320
    to something more like:
    x-gateway-proxy-latency: 77
    x-gateway-upstream-latency: 320

Do you know how to rename those ?

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Looks like I found the answer to my question, solution was to rename it in constants.lua file.
/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/kong/constants.lua

Hope this would be useful trace for some in the future.

3

Also added this to Docker with:

RUN sed -i s/"X-Kong/"X-Gateway/g /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/kong/constants.lua

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I do the same thing, drop in my own constants.lua just because better to not expose what software is running your gateway :slight_smile: . But for Kong to make it generic would remove some of the “Kong” brand, so I think it makes sense why they do it like so.