Can we add http response headers directly into html pages

Question

I need to add response headers like X-Frame, Cache-control, Pragma etc directly into the html code, may be, using attributes in html elements?

It is for help pages which are directly coming from a directory via href link.

Is there any way to add headers to these htmls?

Answer 1

In short: no, you cannot. HTML files are the body of an HTTP response; the headers must come from the server. Anything you could embed in the HTML file would just become part of the body.

Answer 2

You can use meta to replicate some of these. Normally not the ideal solution, but look into the http-equiv attribute of meta tags. I believe a lot of these have been deprecated in newer browsers.

Examples:

<meta http-equiv="Cache-control" content="no-cache"/>

<meta http-equiv="X-Frame-Options" content="sameorigin"/>

<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache"/>