411 Length Required error

Sun Aug 17 17:53:55 MSD 2008

My mistake on that last message. I read the wrong headers info.
It seems ngninx reports no Content-Length header was sent but according 
to Firebug these are the headers - note it says Content Length is 
present and chunked not mentioned...

Host 	www.xxxx.com
User-Agent 	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) 
Gecko/2008072820 Firefox/3.0.1
Accept 	text/javascript, text/html, application/xml, text/xml, */*
Accept-Language 	en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding 	gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset 	ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive 	300
Connection 	keep-alive
X-Requested-With 	XMLHttpRequest
Content-Type 	application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8
Referer 	http://www.xxxx.com/
Content-Length 	120
Cookie 	XXXXXSession=3ce34bb3dbc257ff61405175f941f1d7
Pragma 	no-cache
Cache-Control 	no-cache

Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 02:14:18PM +0700, Chris Savery wrote:
>
>   
>> I've been getting this error a lot in my testing. I never received it 
>> with Apache. I understand what the message say but not why it's coming 
>> about. My headers being sent have length. Or is this message referring 
>> to content returned by PHP at the server end? I'm sure one of you 
>> experts here knows what's going on with this. I only get it on POST 
>> requests and not most of my ajax calls (which are GET).
>>
>> Thanks for any help with tracking this down. I'm seeing it in Firebug 
>> and when it occurs I cannot see the real response content - even though 
>> content is indeed returned as well since it has effect on my javascript 
>> code and updates the screen. Weird.
>> Chris :)
>>     
>
> Set error_log level to info:
>
> error_log  /path/to/log info;
>
> Then nginx will log a reason. Now there are 3 reasons:
>
> "client sent invalid "Content-Length" header"
> "client sent ... method without "Content-Length" header"
> "client sent "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header"
>
> The last reason is nginx feature: it still does not support chunked body.
>
>   
>> Response from server:
>>
>> <html>
>>
>> <head><title>411 Length Required</title></head>
>>
>> <body bgcolor="white">
>>
>> <center><h1>411 Length Required</h1></center>
>>
>> <hr><center>nginx/0.6.32</center>
>>
>> </body>
>>
>> </html>
>>
>> Header sent to server using ajax (only removed some identity info, HOST 
>> line):
>>
>> User-Agent 	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) 
>> Gecko/2008072820 Firefox/3.0.1
>> Accept 	text/javascript, text/html, application/xml, text/xml, */*
>> Accept-Language 	en-us,en;q=0.5
>> Accept-Encoding 	gzip,deflate
>> Accept-Charset 	ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
>> Keep-Alive 	300
>> Connection 	keep-alive
>> X-Requested-With 	XMLHttpRequest
>> Content-Type 	application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8
>> Referer 	http://www.xxxxx.com/
>> Content-Length 	269
>> Cookie 	ZZZZSession=3ce34bb3dbc257ff61405175f941f1d7
>> Pragma 	no-cache
>> Cache-Control 	no-cache
>>     
>
>
>   

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