CONTRIBUTING
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
Sun, 16 Apr 2017 11:28:02 -0700
changeset 32022 e5d7f99a3063
parent 30084 a492610a2fc1
permissions -rw-r--r--
httppeer: don't send empty Vary request header As part of writing test-http-bad-server.t, I noticed that some requests include an empty Vary HTTP request header. The Vary HTTP request header indicates which headers should be taken into account when determining if a cached response can be used. It also accepts the special value of "*". The previous code unconditionally added a Vary header. This could lead to an empty header value. While I don't believe this violates the HTTP spec, this is weird and just wastes bytes. So this patch changes behavior to only send a Vary header when it has a value. Some low-level wire protocol byte reporting tests changed. In some cases, the exact point of data termination changed. However, the behavior being tested - that clients react when the connection is closed in the middle of an HTTP request line or header - remains unchanged.

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