On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com> wrote:
> That would imply that, if content-length doesn't get set on a HEAD > response, but Transfer-Encoding: chunked does, then everything is > correct, right? If somewhat inefficient. > The chunked header is only sent on non-HEAD responses. r->chunked is set as a side-effect in a conditional in httpd and that conditional gets short-circuited earlier if we are a HEAD request. BTW, if I do: % curl --head https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/mod_dav_svn/repos.c HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 11:48:26 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/1.0.0c DAV/2 mod_wsgi/3.1 Python/2.6.6 SVN/1.7.0 Last-Modified: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:11:49 GMT ETag: "1400104//subversion/trunk/subversion/mod_dav_svn/repos.c" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 157969 Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 There is a C-L header...so, I don't know what the original poster is seeing, but we're already doing the right thing... -- justin
