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wsgi: HEAD raises "Tried to write more data than Content-Length"

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refers to:Running WSGI apps on Tornado servers, I deployed Django project to tornado server.
But It will raise HTTP 500 sometimes(can not control, and the 500 error is accidental), and while use
curl --head 127.0.0.1:8888
it will raise Exception:

ERROR:tornado.application:Uncaught exception HEAD / (127.0.0.1)
HTTPServerRequest(protocol='http', host='127.0.0.1:8888', method='HEAD', uri='/', version='HTTP/1.1', remote_ip='127.0.0.1', headers={'Host': '127.0.0.1:8888', 'User-Agent': 'curl/7.54.0', 'Accept': '*/*'})
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/xxx/.py3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tornado/web.py", line 1446, in _execute
    result = self.prepare()
  File "/Users/xxx/.py3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tornado/web.py", line 2706, in prepare
    self.fallback(self.request)
  File "/Users/xxx/.py3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tornado/wsgi.py", line 304, in __call__
    request.connection.write_headers(start_line, header_obj, chunk=body)
  File "/Users/xxx/.py3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tornado/http1connection.py", line 398, in write_headers
    data += self._format_chunk(chunk)
  File "/Users/xxx/.py3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tornado/http1connection.py", line 410, in _format_chunk
    "Tried to write more data than Content-Length")
tornado.httputil.HTTPOutputError: Tried to write more data than Content-Length
ERROR:tornado.access:500 HEAD / (127.0.0.1) 5.99ms

Django version: 1.11.7
Tornado version: 4.5.2
Python: 3.6.0

p.s. while degrade the Django version to 1.9.*, everything is ok.

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Start with the traceback locations in tornado/wsgi.py and tornado/http1connection.py, then reproduce the report with curl --head 127.0.0.1:8888 against the Django application. Compare behavior with Django 1.11.7 and 1.9.*, and consider the issue resolved when HEAD no longer produces HTTPOutputError or an HTTP 500 response.

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