allow to generate a 'no-content' HTTP response (a response with no body)

[mihai.preda@…]

I'd need a way to generate a 'no-content' HTTP response, i.e. a response without any of these headers:

Content-Length:
Content-Type:
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
etc.

I think a 'no-content' is different from a 'zero-length' content (HttpResponse() constructs a zero-length content).
I tried using HttpResponse(None) but it doesn't seem to work.

An example of an HTTP response with no content (taken from the MIDP 2.0 OTA Specification):

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: CoolServer/1.3.12

[mihai_preda@…]

sorry, I've mispelled the email in the initial ticket.

[James Bennett]

Duplicate of #3362, which has a patch.

[yurii.zolotko@…]

#3362 doesn't solve the problem as it can't be done with existing HttpResponse class.
There is still no way to send a response without Content-Type header with Django except this:

    response = HttpResponse(open(unknown_type_file).read())
    del response['Content-Type']

which is very ugly.
According to ​http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec7.html Content-Type header is not mandatory and can be omitted to make client guess file type, but it can't be done with Django as setting content_type to None sets it to DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE and not really None.

[Jacob]

You can do this in your own code with an HttpResponse subclass, and it's enough of an esoteric need that Django doesn't need it in core.