JSP-"page" directive is a response header?

Hi folks,
i was wondering if you can clarify on this fact...i mean,i assume "page" directive is for page attributes to be identified and set by the Server. So, it's more of a META info. But is it coming in Http response as header information???
[ January 11, 2007: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

No, it is not. It's merely holding some attributes the servlet container uses to process the page. But those aren't added as header information.

Page attributes dont go as header but they appear in the generated servlet for example <@page import= appears as the import statements in the beginning of the generated servlet.

That's true, bro...i also knew that, but what happened is whenever i am deploying my application into an app. server, it's firewall/proxy somehow manages to recognize the "page" info from the JSPs as HTTP response header. Hence if in JSP, the "page" attributes are spread in more than one line, the Application portal is throwing error, that WAS 5.0.x understands that as "multiline HTTP response headers" and thrwoing out "internal server error". I understood this, after i rewrite the "page" attributes in one line.

If you guys have come across such a dumb scenario, please feed me on that.

Unless something is really wrong, the page attribute should never be part of your output.
Are you saying that the JSP source is being returned when you make a request?

Hi Ben,
i don't really know, 'cauz the Application is getting deployed in a diffrent location, and they have a App server hosting a B2B portal. Through this portal, whenever they are trying to access such kinda pages (JSP with "page" dierctive-multiline), they are ,getting "Internal server errors". And when i was doing a Trial-error method, i found this "page" directive stuff is the reason for that. It really doesn't make any sense, but still as far as the Application is concerned, it's working now. What can i say to that?Strange, man.
[ January 11, 2007: Message edited by: Subhadip Chatterjee ]