Re: Apache dropping Content-Length header for HEAD responses where Content-Length is 0

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Anyone?

On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 12:51 AM Piotr Dobrogost <2022@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On freshly installed Apache 2.4.52 on Fedora with default
> configuration I'm observing that for HEAD response the Content-Length
> header is not being sent for empty files (it is present for non-empty
> files). When changing HEAD to GET the header is present for such
> files.
> Sidney Shek asked very similar question on this list in the past with
> no response –
> "Apache 2.2 proxy dropping content-length header for HEAD responses
> where content-length is 0"
> (https://lists.apache.org/thread/vlg8x9rl1ob812rhdj7zlbpgsfz7vvw4).
>
> How I tested this:
> [user@hostx ~]$ curl -I http://localhost/x.txt
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 22:37:56 GMT
> Server: Apache/2.4.52 (Fedora Linux)
> Last-Modified: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 22:35:21 GMT
> ETag: "0-5da4969829e4e"
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> [user@hostx ~]$ curl -v http://localhost/x.txt
> *   Trying 127.0.0.1:80...
> * Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 80 (#0)
> > GET /x.txt HTTP/1.1
> > Host: localhost
> > User-Agent: curl/7.79.1
> > Accept: */*
> >
> * Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
> < HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> < Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 22:38:00 GMT
> < Server: Apache/2.4.52 (Fedora Linux)
> < Last-Modified: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 22:35:21 GMT
> < ETag: "0-5da4969829e4e"
> < Accept-Ranges: bytes
> < Content-Length: 0
> < Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> <
> * Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
>
> How to configure Apache so that Content-Length header would be sent in
> HEAD response when requested resource has no content?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Piotr Dobrogost

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