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Damien Neil fdc21f3eaf net/http: don't set length for non-range encoded content requests
Historically, serveContent has not set Content-Length
when the user provides Content-Encoding.

This causes broken responses when the user sets both Content-Length
and Content-Encoding, and the request is a range request,
because the returned data doesn't match the declared length.

CL 381956 fixed this case by changing serveContent to always set
a Content-Length header.

Unfortunately, I've discovered multiple cases in the wild of
users setting Content-Encoding: gzip and passing serveContent
a ResponseWriter wrapper that gzips the data written to it.

This breaks serveContent in a number of ways. In particular,
there's no way for it to respond to Range requests properly,
because it doesn't know the recipient's view of the content.

What the user should be doing in this case is just using
io.Copy to send the gzipped data to the response.
Or possibly setting Transfer-Encoding: gzip.
But whatever they should be doing, what they are doing has
mostly worked for non-Range requests, and setting
Content-Length makes it stop working because the length
of the file being served doesn't match the number of bytes
being sent.

So in the interests of not breaking users (even if they're
misusing serveContent in ways that are already broken),
partially revert CL 381956.

For non-Range requests, don't set Content-Length when
the user has set Content-Encoding. This matches our previous
behavior and causes minimal harm in cases where we could
have set Content-Length. (We will send using chunked
encoding rather than identity, but that's fine.)

For Range requests, set Content-Length unconditionally.
Either the user isn't mangling the data in the ResponseWriter,
in which case the length is correct, or they are, in which
case the response isn't going to contain the right bytes anyway.
(Note that a Range request for a Content-Length: gzip file
is requesting a range of *gzipped* bytes, not a range from
the uncompressed file.)

Change-Id: I5e788e6756f34cee520aa7c456826f462a59f7eb
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/542595
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