Feature: Update content_length header When the `:update_content_length_header` option is set to a truthy value, VCR will ensure that the `Content-Length` header will have the correct value. This is useful in several situations: - When you manually edit the cassette file and change the resonse body length. You can use this option so you don't have to manually calculate and update the body length. - When you use ERB, the response body length may vary. This will ensure it is always correct. - Syck, the default YAML engine for ruby 1.8 (and 1.9, unless you compile it to use Psych), has a bug where it sometimes will remove some whitespace strings when you serialize them. This may cause the `Content-Length` header to have the wrong value. This is especially important when you use a client that checks the `Content-Length` header. Mechanize, for example, will raise an `EOFError` when the header value does not match the actual body length. Background: Given a previously recorded cassette file "cassettes/example.yml" with: """ --- http_interactions: - request: method: get uri: http://example.com/ body: encoding: UTF-8 string: "" headers: {} response: status: code: 200 message: OK headers: Content-Type: - text/html;charset=utf-8 Content-Length: - "11" body: encoding: UTF-8 string: Hello http_version: "1.1" recorded_at: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:58:44 GMT recorded_with: VCR 2.0.0 """ And a file named "common_stuff.rb" with: """ruby require 'vcr' VCR.configure do |c| c.cassette_library_dir = 'cassettes' c.hook_into :fakeweb end def make_request_and_print_results response = Net::HTTP.get_response('example.com', '/') puts "Body length: #{response.body.length}" puts "Header value: #{response['Content-Length']}" end """ Scenario: Default :update_content_length_header setting Given a file named "default.rb" with: """ruby require 'common_stuff' VCR.use_cassette('example') do make_request_and_print_results end """ When I run `ruby default.rb` Then the output should contain: """ Body length: 16 Header value: 11 """ Scenario: :update_content_length_header => false Given a file named "false.rb" with: """ruby require 'common_stuff' VCR.use_cassette('example', :update_content_length_header => false) do make_request_and_print_results end """ When I run `ruby false.rb` Then the output should contain: """ Body length: 16 Header value: 11 """ Scenario: :update_content_length_header => true Given a file named "true.rb" with: """ruby require 'common_stuff' VCR.use_cassette('example', :update_content_length_header => true) do make_request_and_print_results end """ When I run `ruby true.rb` Then the output should contain: """ Body length: 16 Header value: 16 """