node/test/simple/test-http-head-response-has-no-body.js

common = require("../common");
assert = common.assert

var http = require('http');

// This test is to make sure that when the HTTP server
// responds to a HEAD request, it does not send any body.
// In this case it was sending '0\r\n\r\n'

var server = http.createServer(function(req, res) {
  res.writeHead(200); // broken: defaults to TE chunked
  res.end();
});
server.listen(common.PORT);

responseComplete = false;

var req = http.createClient(common.PORT).request('HEAD', '/')
common.error('req');
req.end();
req.addListener('response', function (res) {
  common.error('response');
  res.addListener('end', function() {
    common.error('response end');
    server.close();
    responseComplete = true;
  });
});

process.addListener('exit', function () {
  assert.ok(responseComplete);
});