[bug] set default value for "Content-Length"

Setting default value as -1 when "Content-Length" is empty. If not, currently it will raise a ValueError

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/bottle.py b/bottle.py
index d84c7b0..f14de02 100755
--- a/bottle.py
+++ b/bottle.py
@@ -1787,7 +1787,7 @@ class BaseResponse(object):
         return out
 
     content_type = HeaderProperty('Content-Type')
-    content_length = HeaderProperty('Content-Length', reader=int)
+    content_length = HeaderProperty('Content-Length', reader=int, default=-1)
     expires = HeaderProperty(
         'Expires',
         reader=lambda x: datetime.utcfromtimestamp(parse_date(x)),