From: "hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)" Date: 2021-11-24T05:10:57+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:106240] [Ruby master Bug#17835] Net::HTTP should automatically add Accept-Encoding request header on HEAD request as well Issue #17835 has been updated by hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA). Assignee set to naruse (Yui NARUSE) Status changed from Open to Assigned https://github.com/ruby/net-http/pull/26 was merged for Ruby 3.1. But I'm not sure that we should backport this to Ruby 3.0 or old versions. ---------------------------------------- Bug #17835: Net::HTTP should automatically add Accept-Encoding request header on HEAD request as well https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/17835#change-94860 * Author: jrsyo (Shohei Maeda) * Status: Assigned * Priority: Normal * Assignee: naruse (Yui NARUSE) * Backport: 2.6: UNKNOWN, 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- Currently, Net::HTTP adds the Accept-Encoding request header by default except for HEAD method. https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/v3_0_1/lib/net/http.rb#L1489-L1493 https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/v3_0_1/lib/net/http/generic_request.rb#L34-L44 While this unlikely to cause any real-world problems, this isn't an ideal implementation according to the RFC below: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-3.3.2 > A server MAY send a Content-Length header field in a response to a > HEAD request (Section 4.3.2 of [RFC7231]); a server MUST NOT send > Content-Length in such a response unless its field-value equals the > decimal number of octets that would have been sent in the payload > body of a response if the same request had used the GET method. Since server MAY (can) send the Content-Length header in response to a HEAD request, the client would see a Content-Length value of an uncompressed response if we don't send the Accept-Encoding request header. ``` $ curl -svo /dev/null 'https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/' -I --compressed 2>&1 | grep -i content-length < content-length: 3380 $ curl -svo /dev/null 'https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/' -I 2>&1 | grep -i content-length < content-length: 10932 ``` Say, if the purpose of sending HEAD is to know the content-length beforehand (as an example) doesn���t it make sense to also add the Accept-Encoding request header on HEAD requests as well? In fact, users almost certainly request compressed objects in the subsequent requests (e.g., GET) because of the auto-addition logic above anyway. https://github.com/smaeda-ks/ruby/commit/020469cfcf5f910a22e9bbb24ba18ba4e147ff19 Thanks, Shohei -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: