DO NOT REPLY [Bug 20307] New: - Setting content length causes Tomcat to ignore response status

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Setting content length causes Tomcat to ignore response status

           Summary: Setting content length causes Tomcat to ignore response
                    status
           Product: Tomcat 5
           Version: Nightly Build
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Minor
          Priority: Other
         Component: Catalina
        AssignedTo: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: eglass1@attbi.com


Setting the content length causes Tomcat to ignore subsequent status changes.  
As an example:

import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;

public class Test extends HttpServlet {
    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
            HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
        response.setContentLength(0);
        response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_UNAUTHORIZED);
        response.flushBuffer();
    }
}

This results in a response code of 200 (OK) rather than 401 (Unauthorized).  
Doing:

response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_UNAUTHORIZED);
response.setContentLength(0);

results in the correct response code being sent.

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