On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Chris Miles <[email protected]> wrote: > Either Pylons or Webtest are at fault with their understanding of > whether a Content-Type header is allowed with a 204 response.
As far as I know the content-type without any body has no meaning. In the controller methods I have with 204 as response header I just do: del response.headers['content-type'] I display the same odd behavior with pylons 0.9.6.2 and paste's test modules > In webtest it is lint.py:check_content_type() that enforces a 204 > response to contain no Content-Type header. While I agree a Content- > Type is unnecessary for a response containing no body, I can't see > anywhere in rfc2616 that dictates including a Content-Type header is > invalid. Exactly, it uses "MAY", which means... may :-) > Anyone care to make a call one way or the other? Otherwise I'll > submit a Webtest ticket/patch. I think it should not break, but that's my opinion -- Lawrence, http://oluyede.org - http://twitter.com/lawrenceoluyede "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it" - Upton Sinclair --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
