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Christopher Lenz commented on COUCHDB-265:
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For the record, the proper way to issue HEAD requests with curl is "curl -I
http://localhost:5984/"; (that's the uppercase i option).
> HEAD requests get a Content-Length header
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> Key: COUCHDB-265
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-265
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: HTTP Interface
> Affects Versions: 0.9
> Environment: curl + trunk
> Reporter: Paul Joseph Davis
> Fix For: 0.9
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> Looks like HEAD requests are returning a bogus Content-Length header. If I
> remember my HTTP spec correctly, HEAD requests are supposed to return no
> Content-Length or a Content-Length of 0 but I could be wrong on that. Either
> way, it confuses the crap out of curl:
> $ curl -X HEAD -i http://127.0.0.1:5984/
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Server: CouchDB/0.9.0a (Erlang OTP/R12B)
> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:56:55 GMT
> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8
> Content-Length: 40
> Cache-Control: must-revalidate
> curl: (18) transfer closed with 40 bytes remaining to read
> Also, I just happened to be reading couch_http.erl the other day and I
> remember seeing a note that said mochiweb automatically strips bodies so
> internally HEAD requests are treated like a GET and mochiweb I guess just
> doesn't send a body. That's probably important.
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