The HttpProducer handling the Exchange doesn't know or care where the Exchange is going next, so the request headers are preserved for further routing. You may also consider using properties if you'd rather not filter the headers, or extend org.apache.camel.component.http4.HttpHeaderFilterStrategy or DefaultHeaderFilterStrategy.
http://camel.apache.org/http4.html (See section on Message Body) Taariq On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 8:54 PM, orchid <olivia.g...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > The headers we do not want are our custom headers. Why are they copied from > request to response always in the first place? It would be ideal to have a > conf param so we can skip this line of code. > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Camel-http4-adds-request-headers-to-response-headers-by-default-tp5742600p5742604.html > Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >