Hi Sergey, If I undertand the original query, Steen is seeing "Content-Type: */*" in their GET request. In that case, I don't understand why this unnecessary header with this invalid type value needs to be there to avoid some side-effect that you mentioned. Did I misunderstand the situation?
regards, aki 2015-08-10 16:32 GMT+02:00 Sergey Beryozkin <[email protected]>: > There's some history related to this issue. > At some point I updated the CXF client code to ignore Content-Type > completely. Then the side-effects caused by HttpUrlConnection started > appearing: > > - empty POSTs lead to HttpUrlConnection setting a form conetnt-type > - even more serious, if HTTP Proxy is used, a custom Accept is completely > lost for requests with the empty payloads. > > So indeed, I reverted it to have Content-Type dropped in case of empty > payloads only if the async conduit is used. > > I think it makes sense to let users control it via a property, as it obvious > that unfortunately a single solution does not work with HttpUrlConnection - > I'll take care of it. > It might also make sense to check what HttpUrlConnection does in Java 8 and > 9 re the above two side-effects > > Cheers, Sergey > > > > On 10/08/15 14:31, Steen Elvstrøm wrote: >> >> I've been trying to use Apache CXF JAX-RS (version 3.0.4) to send GET >> requests to a Spring Boot application. Unfortunately CFX adds a >> Content-Type: */* to the request headers which is not accepted by spring >> resulting in a 400 response stating "'Content-Type' cannot contain >> wildcard >> type '*'". >> >> Since a Content-Type header on a GET request doesn't really make sense >> when >> the request haven't got a request entity I guess it must be a bug. >> >> A possible workaround is to add "cxf-rt-transports-http-hc" as a >> dependency >> and setting the property "use.async.http.conduit". Is it a valid durable >> way >> to solve the issue? >> >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://cxf.547215.n5.nabble.com/Why-does-CXF-JAX-RS-set-content-type-on-GET-requests-with-no-body-tp5759908.html >> Sent from the cxf-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >
