#35051: HEAD Responses Drop Headers
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Reporter: Paul Bailey | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: HTTP handling | Version: 5.0
Severity: Release blocker | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by Paul Bailey):
The use case for this is that your GET request has a large body and so you
do not want to have to produce two large bodies, one for the HEAD, one for
GET. Instead you want to match the exact headers a GET request would have
without producing the body content for the HEAD request. This is essential
for producing HTTP Range Requests in Django without a lot of overhead.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Range_requests
As per the docs above, a HTTP HEAD should return Content-Length
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