Content-Length ignored on GET requests
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Key: COUCHDB-1146
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1146
Project: CouchDB
Issue Type: Bug
Components: HTTP Interface
Reporter: Nathan Vander Wilt
In the case of a GET request, CouchDB does not wait for the client to send any
content promised by a Content-Length header but sends its response as soon as
the last header is received. This can confuse some HTTP client libraries (such
as node.js) that do not expect to receive a response before they have finished
the request.
To reproduce:
$ telnet localhost 5984
GET / HTTP/1.1
Content-Length: 3
...
Expected results:
No response from CouchDB until last "." is typed
Actual results:
CouchDB sends response and closes the client's connection as soon as request
headers are done.
>From IRC conversation (and RFC 2616) this doesn't seem to be out-of-spec per
>se, but is a bit "rude" and therefore can break fragile clients.
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