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ESP8266HTTPClient sets Content-Length even on empty GET-requests

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#### Platform

- Hardware: ESP8266
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### Settings in IDE

### Problem Description

Due to [this line](https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/blob/master/libraries/ESP8266HTTPClient/src/ESP8266HTTPClient.cpp#L463), the HTTP client always sets the `Content-Length` header.
I think this header should be omitted for GET-requests with a length of 0.

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