#556·proxygen

HEAD request and Content-Lenght

Author: rafalwijataCreated Apr 24, 2025Updated Sep 18, 2026

Hi, I encountered this funny issue while using proxygen as server. On HEAD request I'm suppose to set Content-Lenght to value it would be and send no body. So I do, ... builder->header(proxygen::HTTP_HEADER_CONTENT_LENGTH, std::to_string(len)); builder->sendWithEOM(); however the latter sendWithEOM() (calls send()) resets the Content-Lenght back to zero. I workarounded that by sending empty chunk first before sendWithEOM().

But I wonder if this is proxygen ResponseBuilder issue or I'm doing it wrong?