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I am working on a Java program that implements an HTTP Client. I test it sending requests to a server. GET, POST and DELETE requests work ok. For example after a POST request I get an output
Data extracted:
{"status":{"message":"ok"}}
and the database reflects the changes made.
After a PUT request, however I get the following html markup of a webpage indicating an error.
Data extracted:
<html>
<head><title>411 Length Required</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>411 Length Required</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx/1.2.6</center>
</body>
</html>
and accordingly no changes in the database.
I found that this can have something to do with the Content-Length header, but I'm not sure. After trying to add this header my program waits for a minute and then throws an exception informing that it couldn't handle the server response.
I can also provide any code or stack trace if needed.
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What Is a 411 Status Code? The server refuses to accept the request without a defined Content-Length1.
The Content-Length header is mandatory for messages with entity bodies, unless the message is transported using chunked encoding. Content-Length is needed to detect premature message truncation when servers crash and to properly segment messages that share a persistent connection.
To manually pass the Content-Length header, you need to add the Content-Length: [length] and Content-Type: [mime type] headers to your request, which describe the size and type of data in the body of the POST request.
Yes, the issue related to Content-Length. HTTP Error 411 means
The server refuses to accept the request without a defined Content- Length. The client MAY repeat the request if it adds a valid Content-Length header field containing the length of the message-body in the request message.
So when you send an empty RequestBody in POST/PUT Method then you also need to send Content-Length:0. So add this header in your request. I don't think this header will cause a problem of you added into Request Object.
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