calling curl "HEAD" ops time out on /v3/auth/tokens

[Mike Abrams]

the following command works -->
'curl -H "x-auth-token:$TOKEN" -H "x-subject-token:$TOKEN" http://localhost:35357/v3/auth/tokens'

but this command does not work. it does not return (hangs indefinitely) -->
'curl -X HEAD -H "x-auth-token:$TOKEN" -H "x-subject-token:$TOKEN" http://localhost:35357/v3/auth/tokens'

[Lance Bragstad (lbragstad)]

I was able to follow the call into routes

http://paste.openstack.org/show/112582/

[Bert JW Regeer (xistence)]

This was also posted to the WebOb issue tracker on Github, I responded there with my thoughts on this as someone that has spent quite a bit of time in WebOb guts ...

Do note that I am not a core developer for WebOb, and don't speak on behalf of the Pylons project, I simply speak as a developer that uses WebOb extensively along with the Pyramid web framework, and have a vested interest in OpenStack through my employer, hoping that this can get resolved :-)

See WebOb issue here:
https://github.com/Pylons/webob/issues/157

[Morgan Fainberg (mdrnstm)]

Curl's man page:

This option only changes the actual word used in the HTTP request, it does not alter the way curl behaves. So for example if you want to make a proper HEAD request, using -X HEAD will not suffice. You need to use the -I, --head option.

Looks like -X HEAD is not sufficient.

[Lance Bragstad (lbragstad)]

I was able to confirm comment #3. -X HEAD doesn't work but using --head does. For example;

# Check Token with HEAD
curl -H "X-Auth-Token: tokentoken" \
     -H "X-Subject-Token: a343bdd3f6ef4be8b8a7a11b4311cf46" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     --head http://localhost:5000/v3/auth/tokens/

works for me.