BUG: send_data, CONTENT TYPE not set

rubyonrails-core
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--> http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=71435#p71435 bug or feature? Thanks in advance Clemens

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worksforme

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what environment do you have?

Mine: win32 ruby 1.8.6-p111 rails 2.1.0 (mongrel 1.1.5 which is not relevant for the testcase)

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worksforme

I had a look - when actually running through the browser, a Content- Type header is sent out as you would expect, but inside functional
tests it does look a bit odd.

The interesting method in response.rb is

       def convert_content_type!          if content_type = headers.delete("Content-Type")            self.headers["type"] = content_type          end          if content_type = headers.delete("Content-type")            self.headers["type"] = content_type          end          if content_type = headers.delete("content-type")            self.headers["type"] = content_type          end        end

Ruby's cgi library in turn will convert a type entry into a Content- Type one (you can see this in cgi.rb, in the header method) Don't know why it does this (i've always thought of cgi.rb as rather
crufty)

Fred

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Hence Response>>convert_content_type! must have changed/entered btw rails 1.1.6 and 2.1.0

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What I was trying to explain was that it doesn't matter - cgi.rb converts the type option to a Content-Type one when it writes the header

Inside a test of course you don't go via cgi and so you see the difference you noted. You can isolate yourself from that difference by going via @response.content_type

Fred