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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Skip adding default content-type header 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' if content is null","articleBody":"Dear ScribeJava,\n\nLibrary: https://github.com/scribejava/scribejava/tree/master/scribejava-httpclient-apache\n\nWhile building the request object:\nhttps://github.com/scribejava/scribejava/blob/8970e8eeb0aff840d0b223890e9c392ee19218f7/scribejava-httpclient-apache/src/main/java/com/github/scribejava/httpclient/apache/ApacheHttpClient.java#L85\n\nI would like to ask you add a condition while adding the default 'Content-Type' header while preparing the requests, to verify the entity and if it's null then skip adding default 'Content-Type' header\n```Java\nprivate \u003cT\u003e Future\u003cT\u003e doExecuteAsync(String userAgent, Map\u003cString, String\u003e headers, Verb httpVerb,\n            String completeUrl, HttpEntity entity, OAuthAsyncRequestCallback\u003cT\u003e callback,\n            OAuthRequest.ResponseConverter\u003cT\u003e converter) {\n        final RequestBuilder builder = getRequestBuilder(httpVerb);\n        builder.setUri(completeUrl);\n\n        if (entity != null \u0026\u0026 httpVerb.isPermitBody()) {\n            if (!headers.containsKey(CONTENT_TYPE)) {\n                builder.addHeader(CONTENT_TYPE, DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE);\n            }\n            builder.setEntity(entity);\n        }\n```\n\n just like the implementation of OkHttpClient lib: https://github.com/scribejava/scribejava/blob/8970e8eeb0aff840d0b223890e9c392ee19218f7/scribejava-httpclient-okhttp/src/main/java/com/github/scribejava/httpclient/okhttp/OkHttpHttpClient.java#L140.\n\nI agree with your reasoning from https://github.com/scribejava/scribejava/issues/966, that you want to allow the possibilities. On the other hand, few servers are too strict that they don't accept other kinds of 'Content-Type' that they don't support.\n\nIf you still want to keep the behavior same, I would like to understand the reasoning behind a different implementation for OkHttpClient.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/karthik-119","@type":"Person","name":"karthik-119"},"datePublished":"2025-05-28T09:26:33.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/1083/scribejava/issues/1083"}