ISA and empty Content-Lenght: header

  • From: "Quillman Shawn (RBNA/CIT5)" <Shawn.Quillman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:42:36 -0500

Hi All,

I've got a problem with a site where downloads are resulting in 0 byte
files.  Upon closer look at the response headers from the site (IIS5) it's
sending an empty Content-Length header, response code of 200 OK.  My
understanding of the HTTP1.1 protocol is that if a content-length header is
going to be sent it has to actually have a value with it (>=0).  So am I not
going nuts in thinking this is an IIS / application problem and not an ISA
problem?  Biggest reason I ask is that when bypassing the ISA server the
file comes down as expected with the same headers.

Here is the complete set of response headers from the site:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 21:45:25 GMT
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=<insert filename here...>
Content-Lenght:
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; Charset=UTF-8
Set-Cookie: <big long asp session cookie goes here...>
Cache-control: private

-Shawn

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