core: discard outbound content-length header #8522
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Since netty version v4.1.67, content-length header validation will be enforced. So once grpc upgrades netty to that version or above, RPCs with invalid content-length header will fail.
Some libraries such as HTTP to gRPC adapters blindly copy all HTTP headers to gRPC metadata, but the content-length header is one of those that shouldn't be forwarded because gRPC uses different encoding. This mistake has already been in existence for a long time.
Discard outbound content-length headers in gRPC, so that users who encounter invalid content-length issue when upgrading grpc-java version on server/client side would be able to workaround by upgrading grpc-java on client/server side as well without fixing the HTTP adapter.