Robert Butts created TC-503:
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Summary: Traffic Ops ORT Fails with Chunked Encoding
Key: TC-503
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TC-503
Project: Traffic Control
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Traffic Ops ORT
Reporter: Robert Butts
Assignee: Robert Butts
ORT fails if no 'Content-Length' header exists.
Content-Length MAY be omitted per HTTP/1.1 RFC 7230, and in fact MUST NOT be
included with a 'Transfer-Encoding: Chunked' header, which MUST be accepted by
clients.
So far, we've just been lucky Perl/Mojolicious Traffic Ops doesn't happen to
send Chunked encodings to ORT. But the spec requires clients accept it, ORT is
in violation of HTTP/1.1.
Further, the upcoming Golang Traffic Ops sends Chunked encoding, and there's no
reasonable way in Go to prevent it. There's no HTTP-compliant way to instruct
the server not to send Chunked encoding either, since clients are required to
accept it. The right solution here is to fix ORT to accept Chunked encoding,
without Content-Length.
It appears ORT only refuses it as a safety check, and doesn't actually need it
for anything. Should be a simple fix.
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