HEAD requests get a Content-Length header
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Key: COUCHDB-265
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-265
Project: CouchDB
Issue Type: Bug
Components: HTTP Interface
Affects Versions: 0.9
Environment: curl + trunk
Reporter: Paul Joseph Davis
Looks like HEAD requests are returning a bogus Content-Length header. If I
remember my HTTP spec correctly, HEAD requests are supposed to return no
Content-Length or a Content-Length of 0 but I could be wrong on that. Either
way, it confuses the crap out of curl:
$ curl -X HEAD -i http://127.0.0.1:5984/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: CouchDB/0.9.0a (Erlang OTP/R12B)
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:56:55 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 40
Cache-Control: must-revalidate
curl: (18) transfer closed with 40 bytes remaining to read
Also, I just happened to be reading couch_http.erl the other day and I remember
seeing a note that said mochiweb automatically strips bodies so internally HEAD
requests are treated like a GET and mochiweb I guess just doesn't send a body.
That's probably important.
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