>From af9326b1665e0e1d3b28ed0b66c6c99d07a88172 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Atkinson <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 21:31:36 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Always send Content-Length if method is post

---
 src/ChangeLog | 5 +++++
 src/http.c    | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 1c4e2d5..447179e 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-10-19  Matthew Atkinson  <address@hidden>
+
+	* http.c (gethttp): Always send Content-Length header when method is post,
+	even with no post body, as some servers will reject the request otherwise
+
 2014-05-03  Tim Ruehsen  <address@hidden>
 
 	* retr.c (retrieve_url): fixed memory leak
diff --git a/src/http.c b/src/http.c
index 4b99c17..e020682 100644
--- a/src/http.c
+++ b/src/http.c
@@ -1875,6 +1875,8 @@ gethttp (struct url *u, struct http_stat *hs, int *dt, struct url *proxy,
                               xstrdup (number_to_static_string (body_data_size)),
                               rel_value);
         }
+      else if (strcasecmp (opt.method, "post") == 0)
+        request_set_header (req, "Content-Length", "0", rel_none);
     }
 
  retry_with_auth:
-- 
1.9.1