Content-Length header with HEAD response

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 02:49:46PM +0300, Hagai Avrahami wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I am trying to configure Nginx to deny HTTP HEAD requests
> 
> 1. By adding the following to configuration file
> 
> if ($request_method !~ ^(GET)$) {
>     return 405;
> }
> 
> 2. Explicitly in the module
> 
> if (!(r->method & (NGX_HTTP_GET))) {
>         return NGX_HTTP_NOT_ALLOWED;
>  }
> 
> Nginx returns 405 status code but the response content length is not 0
> it's counting the error page text but when coming to send the response it
> ignores the body because it is HEAD request
> 
> HTTP/1.1 405 Not Allowed
> Server: nginx
> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 11:35:02 GMT
> Content-Type: text/html
> Content-Length: 161
> Connection: keep-alive
> 
> ***No-Body**

And the question is?  The behaviour you observe is correct as per 
HTTP protocol.

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