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Why is my HTTP client sending unwanted “application/x-www-form-urlencoded” content type headers?

April 26, 2017client content headers http type unwanted

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Why is my HTTP client sending unwanted “application/x-www-form-urlencoded” content type headers?

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When you do a simple GET with the Restlet HTTP client connector based on JDK’s HttpURLConnection, an extra “content-type” header can be sent to the server, even though your call doesn’t provide any input content (because you just GET a representation). This is due to a bug in JDK 5.0 that was fixed in update 10 and in JDK 6.0 as indicated in the bug report.