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net/http: Document Content-Length behavior for servers #23450

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jsha opened this issue Jan 15, 2018 · 2 comments
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net/http: Document Content-Length behavior for servers #23450

jsha opened this issue Jan 15, 2018 · 2 comments
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jsha commented Jan 15, 2018

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

Go 1.9

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes.

For a Go HTTP server, we noticed that sometimes it was setting the Content-Length header on responses, and sometimes it was not. The user code for the HTTP server didn't set Content-Length anywhere, so it must be the stdlib code. After some digging in the stdlib code, we found that Content-Length will be automatically set on small response bodies only. It would be good to document this in the net/http godocs.
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mvdan commented Jan 15, 2018

/cc @bradfitz @tombergan

@titanous titanous added this to the Go1.11 milestone Jan 16, 2018
@titanous titanous added the NeedsFix The path to resolution is known, but the work has not been done. label Jan 16, 2018
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Change https://golang.org/cl/115040 mentions this issue: net/http: document Server's implicit Content-Length response header

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