fix(nuxt): allow responding with custom headers from error.vue (#8469)

packages/nuxt/src/core/runtime/nitro/error.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { withQuery } from 'ufo'
 import type { NitroErrorHandler } from 'nitropack'
-import type { H3Error } from 'h3'
-import { getRequestHeaders } from 'h3'
+import { H3Error, setResponseHeader, getRequestHeaders } from 'h3'
+import { useNitroApp } from '#internal/nitro'
 import { normalizeError, isJsonRequest } from '#internal/nitro/utils'
 
 export default <NitroErrorHandler> async function errorhandler (error: H3Error, event) {
@@ -46,14 +46,15 @@ export default <NitroErrorHandler> async function errorhandler (error: H3Error,
 
   // HTML response (via SSR)
   const isErrorPage = event.req.url?.startsWith('/__nuxt_error')
-  let html = !isErrorPage
-    ? await $fetch(withQuery('/__nuxt_error', errorObject), {
-      headers: getRequestHeaders(event) as HeadersInit
+  const res = !isErrorPage
+    ? await useNitroApp().localFetch(withQuery('/__nuxt_error', errorObject), {
+      headers: getRequestHeaders(event) as Record<string, string>,
+      redirect: 'manual'
     }).catch(() => null)
     : null
 
   // Fallback to static rendered error page
-  if (!html) {
+  if (!res) {
     const { template } = process.dev
       // @ts-ignore
       ? await import('@nuxt/ui-templates/templates/error-dev.mjs')
@@ -63,9 +64,22 @@ export default <NitroErrorHandler> async function errorhandler (error: H3Error,
       // TODO: Support `message` in template
       (errorObject as any).description = errorObject.message
     }
-    html = template(errorObject)
+    event.res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html;charset=UTF-8')
+    event.res.end(template(errorObject))
+    return
+  }
+
+  for (const [header, value] of res.headers.entries()) {
+    setResponseHeader(event, header, value)
+  }
+
+  if (res.status && res.status !== 200) {
+    event.res.statusCode = res.status
+  }
+
+  if (res.statusText) {
+    event.res.statusMessage = res.statusText
   }
 
-  event.res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html;charset=UTF-8')
-  event.res.end(html)
+  event.res.end(await res.text())
 }