Allow XML Content-Type

[jeremymcgee73]

Hello,
I believe the issue is that XML content type is not allowed in the return.

Terraform Version

Terraform v0.14.9

Affected Resource(s)

• data.http

Terraform Configuration Files

data "http" "what_xml" {
  url = "https://whatever.com/file.xml"
  # Optional request headers
  request_headers = {
    Accept = "application/xml"
  }
}

Debug Output

Warning: Content-Type is not recognized as a text type, got "application/xml;charset=UTF-8"

  on keycloak.tf line 24, in data "http" "what_xml":
  24: data "http" "what_xml" {

If the content is binary data, Terraform may not properly handle the contents
of the response.

Panic Output

If Terraform produced a panic, please provide a link to a GitHub Gist containing the output of the crash.log.

Expected Behavior

The HTTP request should be saved into the body.

Actual Behavior

An error occured.

References

[jeremymcgee73]

Thanks so much! Do you think we could get a new release for this?

Thanks!

[dracut5]

Faced with the same issue. I see the fix is already merged, would be great to have a new release.

Thank you!

[bendbennett]

@jeremymcgee73 @dracut5 it seems that content-types that are not recognised as text have been "allowed" since v2.0.0 in that if the content-type is not identified as text then a warning is issued but the body (or response_body since v2.2.0) should still be populated with a string representation of the response body.

There is an open PR to include an additional attribute, response_body_base64_std which is intended to hold a standard base64 encoding of the response body.

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