response-rewrite

The response-rewrite plugin offers options to rewrite responses that APISIX and its upstream services return to clients. With the plugin, you can modify HTTP status codes, request headers, response body, and more.

For instance, you can use this plugin to:

Support CORS by setting Access-Control-Allow-* headers.
Indicate redirection by setting HTTP status codes and Location header.

Examples

The examples below demonstrate how you can configure response-rewrite on a route in different scenarios.

Rewrite Header and Body

The following example demonstrates how to add response body and headers, only to responses with 200 HTTP status codes.

Create a route with the response-rewrite plugin:

curl "http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/routes" -X PUT \
  -H "X-API-KEY: ${ADMIN_API_KEY}" \
  -d '{
    "id": "response-rewrite-route",
    "methods": ["GET"],
    "uri": "/headers",
    "plugins": {
      "response-rewrite": {
        "body": "{\"code\":\"ok\",\"message\":\"new json body\"}",
        "headers": {
          "set": {
            "X-Server-id": 3,
            "X-Server-status": "on",
            "X-Server-balancer-addr": "$balancer_ip:$balancer_port"
          }
        },
        "vars": [
          [ "status","==",200 ]
        ]
      }
    },
    "upstream": {
      "type": "roundrobin",
      "nodes": {
        "httpbin.org:80": 1
      }
    }
  }'

Send a request to verify:

curl -i "http://127.0.0.1:9080/headers"

You should receive a HTTP/1.1 200 OK response similar to the following:

...
X-Server-id: 3
X-Server-status: on
X-Server-balancer-addr: 50.237.103.220:80

{"code":"ok","message":"new json body"} 

Rewrite Header With RegEx Filter

The following example demonstrates how to use RegEx filter matching to replace X-Amzn-Trace-Id for responses.

Create a route with the response-rewrite plugin:

curl "http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/routes" -X PUT \
  -H "X-API-KEY: ${ADMIN_API_KEY}" \
  -d '{
    "id": "response-rewrite-route",
    "methods": ["GET"],
    "uri": "/headers",
    "plugins":{
      "response-rewrite":{
        "filters":[
          {
            "regex":"X-Amzn-Trace-Id",
            "scope":"global",
            "replace":"X-Amzn-Trace-Id-Replace"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "upstream": {
      "type": "roundrobin",
      "nodes": {
        "httpbin.org:80": 1
      }
    }
  }'

Send a request to verify:

curl -i "http://127.0.0.1:9080/headers"

You should see a response similar to the following:

{
  "headers": {
    "Accept": "*/*", 
    "Host": "127.0.0.1", 
    "User-Agent": "curl/8.2.1",
    "X-Amzn-Trace-Id-Replace": "Root=1-6500095d-1041b05e2ba9c6b37232dbc7", 
    "X-Forwarded-Host": "127.0.0.1"
  }
}

Decode Body from Base64

The following example demonstrates how to Decode Body from Base64 format.

Create a route with the response-rewrite plugin:

curl "http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/routes" -X PUT \
  -H "X-API-KEY: ${ADMIN_API_KEY}" \
  -d '{
    "id": "response-rewrite-route",
    "methods": ["GET"],
    "uri": "/get",
    "plugins":{
      "response-rewrite": {
        "body": "SGVsbG8gV29ybGQ=",
        "body_base64": true
        }
    },
    "upstream": {
      "type": "roundrobin",
      "nodes": {
        "httpbin.org:80": 1
      }
    }
  }'

Send a request to verify:

curl "http://127.0.0.1:9080/get"

You should see a response of the following:

Hello World

Rewrite Response and Its Connection with Execution Phases

The following example demonstrates the connection between the response-rewrite plugin and execution phases by configuring the plugin with the key-auth plugin, and see how the response is still rewritten to 200 OK in the case of an unauthenticated request.

Create a consumer jack:

curl "http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/consumers" -X PUT \
  -H "X-API-KEY: ${ADMIN_API_KEY}" \
  -d '{
    "username": "jack"
  }'

Create key-auth credential for the consumer:

curl "http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/consumers/jack/credentials" -X PUT \
  -H "X-API-KEY: ${ADMIN_API_KEY}" \
  -d '{
    "id": "cred-jack-key-auth",
    "plugins": {
      "key-auth": {
        "key": "jack-key"
      }
    }
  }'

Create a route with key-auth and configure response-rewrite to rewrite the response status code and body:

curl "http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/routes" -X PUT \
   -H "X-API-KEY: ${ADMIN_API_KEY}" \
   -d '{
    "id": "response-rewrite-route",
    "uri": "/get",
    "plugins": {
      "key-auth": {},
      "response-rewrite": {
        "status_code": 200,
        "body": "{\"code\": 200, \"msg\": \"success\"}"
      }
    },
    "upstream": {
      "type": "roundrobin",
      "nodes": {
        "httpbin.org:80": 1
      }
    }
  }'

Send a request to the route with the valid key:

curl -i "http://127.0.0.1:9080/get" -H 'apikey: jack-key'

You should receive an HTTP/1.1 200 OK response of the following:

{"code": 200, "msg": "success"}

Send a request to the route without any key:

curl -i "http://127.0.0.1:9080/get"

You should still receive an HTTP/1.1 200 OK response of the same, instead of HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized from the key-auth plugin. This shows that the response-rewrite plugin still rewrites the response.

This is because header_filter and body_filter phase logics of the response-rewrite plugin will continue to run after ngx.exit in the access or rewrite phases from other plugins.

The following table summarizes the impact of ngx.exit on execution phases.

Phase	rewrite	access	header_filter	body_filter
rewrite	ngx.exit
access	×	ngx.exit
header_filter	✓	✓	ngx.exit
body_filter	✓	✓	×	ngx.exit

For example, if ngx.exit takes places in the rewrite phase, it will interrupt the execution of access phase but not interfere with header_filter and body_filter phases.

response-rewrite

Examples​

Rewrite Header and Body​

Rewrite Header With RegEx Filter​

Decode Body from Base64​

Rewrite Response and Its Connection with Execution Phases​

Examples

Rewrite Header and Body

Rewrite Header With RegEx Filter

Decode Body from Base64

Rewrite Response and Its Connection with Execution Phases