deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · error · Error

invalid Content-Length header: ${JSON.stringify(line)}

Error message

invalid Content-Length header: ${JSON.stringify(line)}

What it means

Error "invalid Content-Length header: ${JSON.stringify(line)}" thrown in deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.

Source

Thrown at packages/lsp/lsp-stdio/src/framing.ts:97

    this.buffer = this.buffer.subarray(bodyEnd)
    try {
      return { ready: true, message: JSON.parse(body) }
    } catch (error) {
      /* v8 ignore next -- JSON.parse throws a SyntaxError (an Error); the String() fallback is defensive. */
      throw new Error(`LSP message body was not valid JSON: ${error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)}`)
    }
  }
}

/** Read the `Content-Length` header value (case-insensitive), rejecting a missing or non-numeric one. */
function parseContentLength(headerText: string): number {
  for (const line of headerText.split('\r\n')) {
    const colon = line.indexOf(':')
    if (colon < 0) continue
    if (line.slice(0, colon).trim().toLowerCase() !== 'content-length') continue
    const value = Number(line.slice(colon + 1).trim())
    if (!Number.isInteger(value) || value < 0) {
      throw new Error(`invalid Content-Length header: ${JSON.stringify(line)}`)
    }
    return value
  }
  throw new Error(`LSP header block missing Content-Length: ${JSON.stringify(headerText)}`)
}

View on GitHub (pinned to b150a551b8)

Solutions

1. Fix the LSP server to emit a valid Content-Length header line.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/lsp/lsp-stdio/src/framing.ts:97 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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