New submission from Arve Knudsen <arve.knud...@gmail.com>: httplib doesn't specify the HTTP header 'content-length' for POST requests without data. Conceptually this makes sense, considering the empty content. However, IIS (7.5) servers don't accept such requests and respond with a 411 status code. See this question on StackOverflow for reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5915131/can-i-send-an-empty-http-post-webrequest-object-from-c-sharp-to-iis.
See also issue #223 of the Requests project, https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/223, which regards this problem in the context of the requests Python library. The following code makes a data-less POST request to the HTTP sniffer Fiddler running on localhost: import httplib conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("localhost", 8888) conn.request("POST", "/post", "", {}) conn.close() Fiddler reports that it receives the following headers for the POST request, as you can see 'content-length' is not included: POST http://localhost:8888/post HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:8888 Accept-Encoding: identity ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 159915 nosy: Arve.Knudsen priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: httplib doesn't specify content-length header for POST requests without data versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14721> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
