This bug had a fix but didn't push, I think it's in master now.
On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 12:13 +0800, Darren Hoo wrote:
> (use-modules (web client))
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> (http-post "http://www.google.com/")
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> the POST request is sent without the Content-Length header
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> OK, let's add something to the body
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> (http-post "http://www.google.com/" #:body "")
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> Howcome the request now becomes an http GET request:
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> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8
> Host: www.google.com
> Connection: close
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> This is really ridiculous.
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>