From 469f901289fc3a46adeaef8ef3d84b9bb9c51a94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sascha Goebel <git@saschagoebel.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 09:36:19 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Always send Content-Length header. Fixes compatibility issues
 with elasticsearch behind nginx. See
 https://github.com/elastic/cookbook-elasticsearch/issues/38 or
 http://serverfault.com/questions/164220/is-there-a-way-to-avoid-nginx-411-content-length-required-errors

---
 src/lib/connectors/http.js | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/lib/connectors/http.js b/src/lib/connectors/http.js
index fcaf91f3c..7d972a1cd 100644
--- a/src/lib/connectors/http.js
+++ b/src/lib/connectors/http.js
@@ -185,10 +185,11 @@ HttpConnector.prototype.request = function (params, cb) {
     request.setHeader('Content-Length', Buffer.byteLength(params.body, 'utf8'));
     request.end(params.body);
   } else {
+    request.setHeader('Content-Length', 0);
     request.end();
   }
 
   return function () {
     request.abort();
   };
-};
\ No newline at end of file
+};