Question: UsingHead always returns 0 for Content-Length header even when explicitly specified

[pm7y]

The response to a HEAD request should be the length of the file (without the actual body) so something like this (below) should return 1024 in the Content-Length response header but it always returns 0. Something internally must be overwriting my value of "1024" back to "0".

server
    .Given(Request.Create().WithPath($"/SomeFile.zip").UsingHead())
    .RespondWith(Response.Create()
        .WithHeader("Content-Length", "1024")
    );

[StefH]

This is a restricted header:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/78h415ay(v=vs.110).aspx

[StefH]

@pmcilreavy Does this answer your question?

[StefH]

Closing

[o7g8]

@StefH the documentation https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/78h415ay(v=vs.110).aspx says

Tests whether the specified HTTP header can be set for the request.

But in this example the code attempts to set in the response.
Why shouldn't it be possible for a mock to specify an arbitrary value of Content-Length?

[StefH]

Solved, see NuGet 1.0.3.18