[jira] [Commented] (CXF-5167) HEAD operation implementation is not compliant with specification

["Sergey Beryozkin (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Sergey Beryozkin commented on CXF-5167:
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Are you saying that you see Content-Type set "text/plain" in response to HEAD ? 
                
> HEAD operation implementation is not compliant with specification
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CXF-5167
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-5167
>             Project: CXF
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: JAX-RS
>    Affects Versions: 2.7.5
>            Reporter: Antonio Sargento
>
> The implementation of HEAD operation is not compliant with the HTTP 1.1 specification.
> {quote}
> 9.4 HEAD
> The HEAD method is identical to GET except that the server MUST NOT return a message-body in the response. The metainformation contained in the HTTP headers in response to a HEAD request SHOULD be identical to the information sent in response to a GET request. This method can be used for obtaining metainformation about the entity implied by the request without transferring the entity-body itself. This method is often used for testing hypertext links for validity, accessibility, and recent modification.
> The response to a HEAD request MAY be cacheable in the sense that the information contained in the response MAY be used to update a previously cached entity from that resource. If the new field values indicate that the cached entity differs from the current entity (as would be indicated by a change in Content-Length, Content-MD5, ETag or Last-Modified), then the cache MUST treat the cache entry as stale.
> {quote}
> Now, since the HEAD response doesn't have an body entity, the Content-lenght is equal to zero and the mime-type is set to text/plain.
> I think that the problem is due the following code in class org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.interceptor.JAXRSOutInterceptor (lines 228 - 236) 
> {code}
> // Write the entity
> entity = InjectionUtils.getEntity(response.getEntity());
> setResponseStatus(message, getActualStatus(response.getStatus(), entity));
> if (entity == null) {
>    responseHeaders.putSingle(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_LENGTH, "0");
>    responseHeaders.remove(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_TYPE);
>    message.remove(Message.CONTENT_TYPE);
>    return;
> }
> {code}
>  

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