No content response (204); content length/Transfer-Encoding headers; passenger with apache

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Tolstov Georgij

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Jul 15, 2015, 12:05:57 PM7/15/15
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Hello.
I am not sure, it's right place for question.
We use passenger with apache. Api responds with 204 via "head :no_content" -- ActionController/Head.html

response (tcpdump output):

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content^M
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 13:05:41 GMT^M
Server: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)^M
Cache-Control: no-cache^M
X-Runtime: 0.025314^M
X-Request-Id: 28bdd133-29c6-4176-a9a5-edcb628d9a19^M
X-Powered-By: Phusion Passenger 5.0.14^M
Transfer-Encoding: chunked^M
Status: 204 No Content^M
Content-Length: 0^M
Connection: close

but according (RFC 7230):
   A sender MUST NOT send a Content-Length header field in any message
   that contains a Transfer-Encoding header field.
plus

   A server MUST NOT send a Transfer-Encoding header field in any
   response with a status code of 1xx (Informational) or 204 (No
   Content).  A server MUST NOT send a Transfer-Encoding header field in
   any 2xx (Successful) response to a CONNECT request (Section 4.3.6 of
   [RFC7231]).

As the result we got this error on ios:
Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1017 "cannot parse response" UserInfo=0x1740eb880 {NSUnderlyingError=0x174051be0 "cannot parse response", NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=api-url, NSErrorFailingURLKey=api-url, <i raw_pre="_" raw_post="_">kCFStreamErrorDomainKey=4, </i>kCFStreamErrorCodeKey=-1, NSLocalizedDescription=cannot parse response}

I make a dirty workaround
headers['Content-Length'] = 0
after "head :no_content". It's remove "Transfer-Encoding: chunked"

according rfc7230#section-3.3.2
A server MUST NOT send a Content-Length header field in any response
   with a status code of 1xx (Informational) or 204 (No Content).


I think there is passenger mod or apache bug (maybe documentation lack or config settings). What should I do?

// and sorry for my poor English
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