Seeing as HEAD requests, per the various RFCs, are essentially GET requests with complete and valid response headers, but never any content, having a HEAD response with Content-Length is 100% valid and appropriate.
Is the particular resource you are working with not valid for a GET request? -- Joakim Erdfelt <[email protected]> webtide.com <http://www.webtide.com/> - intalio.com/jetty Expert advice, services and support from from the Jetty & CometD experts eclipse.org/jetty - cometd.org On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 6:58 PM, James Reeves <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'd like to omit the Content-Length header in a response to a HEAD > request, but I can't for the life of me work out how to do this. No matter > what I do the Content-Length header is always emitted. > > I'm using an embedded Jetty 7.6.13. A little old, I know, but there's a > minimum dependency on Java 1.5 I can't yet work around. > > Does anyone have any ideas on how to accomplish this, in Jetty 7 or indeed > any other version? > > - James > > _______________________________________________ > jetty-users mailing list > [email protected] > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe > from this list, visit > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/jetty-users >
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