HEAD method in HttpResponseDecoder

robert.ambrose at muttsoft.com robert.ambrose at muttsoft.com
Wed Aug 25 03:33:29 EDT 2010


It looks like HttpResponseDecoder is trying to read a message body of the 
response to a HEAD request.  According to rfc 2616 sections 4.3 and 9.4, 
this response should never have a message body.  The problem is there's 
still a Content-Length header present in the response so 
HttpResponseDecoder waits forever for the the message body.  Somehow the 
response needs to know that the method of the request was a HEAD.

rna



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