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"--head" and "--request" Options Together

From: Thuc Nguyen via curl-users <curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 13:31:11 -0800

Hi,

What's the expected behavior when both "--head" and "--request GET" options
are provided?

I noticed a lot of "Connection reset" errors on the server side. I traced
it back to a client that's using "curl" to download files with both options
specified. TCP dumps show that "curl" sends the FIN packet once it receives
the response for "--head". However, the server continues to send the data
over and curl responds with "RST" packets.

I'm able to reproduce with the latest version 7.75.0. I happen to have an
older version, 7.29.0, and can't reproduce it there. So it seems that the
behavior was changed in recent versions.

Thanks for your help.
-- 
Thuc


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Received on 2021-03-09