ESP8266HTTPClient sets Content-Length even on empty GET-requests

[dakhnod]

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Platform

• Hardware: ESP8266
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Problem Description

Due to this line, the HTTP client always sets the Content-Length header. I think this header should be omitted for GET-requests with a length of 0.

[mcspr]

Yup, RFC seems to imply we should not include it https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7230#section-3.3.2 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7230#section-3.3

I would guess our client has a similar problem that Dart's one had at some point https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/commit/6c254fab89adbeebfb616cdec497260db4cb7cf7

Do you have an example of a server that breaks with current behavior?