Well, I figured it out ... Kinda ...
It turns out the same issue with Jetty and Tomcat (the MAYBE value was a container issue). So that...
Debugging to ensure that the response object contains the correct header value until Spring returns to the container. Result: the HttpServletResponse instance still had the correct header value.
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