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Hello,

Quick question... I noticed that the gateway strips the content-type header when dealing with a DELETE verb.  Is this expected behavior?  Is there a way to adjust this if it is? 

Asking because a backend service is expecting the content-type header (rightly, or wrongly) and the gateway is stripping it out unexpectedly. 

Thanks,

Alejandro

Hi  Alejandro,

Is the header not making it to the Gateway or being stripped at the Gateway before hitting the backend?

You may want to take a look at this posting: https://communities.ca.com/message/242163716-re-route-via-http-assertion-how-to-overide-some-request-header-entry?commen… 

Slightly different but it explains the route assertion behavior.

Regards,

Joe

DELETE is like GET, it is to ask the server to delete a resource which identified by the uri.

In another word, the payload and content-type in Delete request has no meaning.

As per RFC 7231 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content ,

   A payload within a DELETE request message has no defined semantics;
   sending a payload body on a DELETE request might cause some existing
   implementations to reject the request.

in an other word, payload(content-type)  is allowed, but the server should ignore it, or reject it.

I done a test on gateway 9.3, it's true that the gateway will remove the content-type and payload when route the DELETE request to the backend -- gateway is also a server against the requestor, the gateway ignores the payload(content-type) for DELETE request is expected as per the RFC.

I am curious what's purpose the backend service expects content-type (ie. expects a payload) for a DELETE request?