TestApp doesn't have a head() method (for HTTP HEAD)

[greut]

>>> app = TestApp(...)
>>> app.head("/")
AttributeError: 'TestApp' object has no attribute 'head'

Thanks!

[greut]

providing a .head method

[greut]

I cannot get the debug_app to behave correctly.

The Content-Length entity-header field indicates the size of the entity-body, in decimal number of OCTETs, sent to the recipient or, in the case of the HEAD method, the size of the entity-body that would have been sent had the request been a GET.

the content-size is changed to 0 when the body is empty.

[greut]

I had to patch both WebOb and WebTest to get this working, patches are following.

[greut]

patching webob

[greut]

patching webtest

[GothAlice]

Please get the webob patch applied for the earliest release possible; the standard defines that all headers should be from from the GET request with the body stripped; webob resets the content-length to zero. This ticket has existed for four months now.

My unit tests are very unhappy if the Content-Length is ever zero for a HEAD request. :(

[maluke]

can you provide a test case for incorrect webob behavior? (make sure it's specifically a webob problem)

[maluke]

OK, I have a couple test cases, will apply fixes soon.

[maluke]

WebOb? changes are in ( http://bitbucket.org/ianb/webob/changeset/eec515fceb5b/), however I *will not* do any related work on WebTest? or Paste.

[GothAlice]

That's great, thanks for the rapid turn-around after my comment! This should probably have been separate tickets for the various components. Any ETA for a Pypi release?

[maluke]

No ETA, but see this:  http://groups.google.com/group/paste-users/browse_thread/thread/7a7d4a0b687f715f

[ianb]

applied in webtest