Re: 411 Content-Length Required, but Content-Length header is in place (Java)

[Corrado]

So it looks I found a clue.

Investigating the source code of HttpRequest in google-http-client library, I noticed a small details that made a huge difference. There is this comment

   * Some servers will fail to process a POST/PUT/PATCH unless Content-Length header >= 1. If this

   * value is set to {@code false} then " " is set as the content with Content-Length {@code 1} for

   * empty contents. Defaults to {@code true}.

Wow. To make my PUT bucket request work, I had to write in the request an empty space, with of course Content-Length: 1

And finally, 200 OK.

I suggest the GCS team to put this in evidence in the documentation.

And while I'm here, I would also suggest to take a look at the status codes for responses that have no content. Some endpoints returns a 204 No Content, while others 200 OK but still no content. Consistency would be much appreciated on the developer side.

Thanks, bye!

[Erick Fejta]

Hi Corrado,

Are you sure that the content-length header is actually getting sent to Google? Some versions of java ignore attempts to manually set certain restricted headers Content-Length is one of these restricted headers.

The following stackoverflow thread explains the situation in detail:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6056125/why-does-content-length-http-header-field-use-a-value-other-than-the-one-given-i

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