On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Travis Jensen <travis.jen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> couch_httpd.erl seems to be confused about what it wants to do with HEAD
> requests.
>
> On the one hand, it supports catching {http_head_abort, Resp} and will throw
> that in start_response/3 and start_response_length/4 if your method is set
> to HEAD.
>
> On the other hand, it sets all HEAD requests to GET, so no handler can ever
> know a HEAD request was made (instead, it lets Mochiweb strip the body).
>
> I can appreciate the simplicity of the latter, but
> the schizophrenic behavior seems odd. I've also got a custom handler that
> would really like to know if it is HEAD or GET (generating the body takes a
> lot of CPU, but I know its length because I store it in a document).
>
> First question: should Couch really set all HEAD requests to GET?
> (Personally, I think not)
> Second question: does anybody know how bad it would be to remove that HEAD
> -> GET mapping?
>
> Cheers.
>
> tj
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>I don't have the answer at the tip of my fingers, but IIRC there was a specific interaction that we had to do that so that something else didn't break. I wonder if its possible to tag the request with a special "is actually a HEAD request" thing so users can check. I'd search through the dev@ list for chatter on that mapping around the time it was made. I'm pretty sure there was a thread that we did some discussion on that.
