[Web-SIG] wsgiref bug with HEAD request

[Joe Gregorio]

According to RFC 2616 the HEAD response MUST NOT
return a message-body in the response:

   http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html#sec9.4

   -joe


On 10/18/06, Sylvain Hellegouarch <sh at defuze.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> It seems the default server from wsgiref (from wsgiref.simple_server
> import make_server) seems not to respect Content-Length in case of HEAD
> request.
>
> Since no body can be returned in a response to a HEAD request, the
> content length is set to 0 by the server. In that case Content-Length is
> therefore set by the application or a middleware.
>
> wsgiref server disregard the existing value and sets to 0 either way.
>
> Seems bogus to me or am I missing something here?
>
> - Sylvain
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