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Bug #2603

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GET method returns 400 if request contains "Content-length: 0"

Added by a3nm over 10 years ago. Updated about 10 years ago.

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Description

Testing at revision 2969 from trunk, GET requests containing "Content-length: 0" yield a 400 bad request response. For instance, the following works:

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost

but the following doesn't:

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Content-Length: 0

I noticed this when using mitmproxy 0.8 which adds such a header.

This header is not useful, but I do not see why such requests should be rejected as per RFCs 2616 or 7230. I may have missed something, as I am not an expert, but otherwise I think this is a bug and the header should just be ignored.

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 #1

Updated by darix over 10 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Invalid

1.5. aka trunk is dead. dont use.

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 #2

Updated by a3nm over 10 years ago

Indeed, the problem doesn't occur with lighttpd/1.4.31 as packaged by Debian. Thanks!

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 #3

Updated by stbuehler about 10 years ago

  • Target version deleted (1.5.0)
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