Re: Bug 60190 - Content-Type is added for POST unconditionally

[Philippe Mouawad <ph...@gmail.com>]

Hello,
Bug is fixed in nightly build (use jenkins last build), if reported can
give us some feedback, it would be nice.

Thanks

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Epp, J Wyatt <je...@cas.org> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Philippe Mouawad [mailto:p.mouawad@ubik-ingenierie.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 11 October, 2017 14:45
> > To: dev@jmeter.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: Bug 60190 - Content-Type is added for POST unconditionally
> >
> > Hello
> > Any feedback on this ?
>
> Sorry, been working on other things and haven't been following the list
> closely.
>
> > On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Philippe Mouawad <
> > p.mouawad@ubik-ingenierie.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >> How about not adding this anymore if not set and having a property that
> >> allows to do that ?
> >>
> >>    - post_add_content_type_if_missing=false
>
> If I read you correctly, the idea is to default to _not_ adding a default
> content-type, but leave the option? That seems fine.  As the OP for this
> bug, I would certainly like to see it fixed; it creates some annoying
> special cases for us.  Even setting aside our self-interest, from a design
> standpoint, it violates the principle of least astonishment: there's no
> indication anywhere that this behaviour exists, which makes debugging
> problems caused by it rather tricky.
>
> The way I see it, if you're recording, it should _always_ record,
> verbatim, exactly the traffic that passes between the client and server.
> The real world sucks and browsers don't always do what they "SHOULD"; no
> need to confuse the issue further.
>
> >> What is the risk ?
>
> Honestly, I'd be a bit surprised to find anything relying on this
> behaviour.  As you note from the spec, the default lowering should be to
> "application/octet-stream", not "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", so
> anyone looking for that type should have no reasonable expectation that
> they'll find it.
>
> Cheers,
> Wyatt
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Cordialement.
Philippe Mouawad.