Remove Content-Type header from empty responses. Fixes #1196

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/rest_framework/response.py b/rest_framework/response.py
index 5877c8a3..1dc6abcf 100644
--- a/rest_framework/response.py
+++ b/rest_framework/response.py
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ class Response(SimpleTemplateResponse):
             assert charset, 'renderer returned unicode, and did not specify ' \
             'a charset value.'
             return bytes(ret.encode(charset))
+
+        if not ret:
+            del self['Content-Type']
+
         return ret
 
     @property