On Mon, 2014-05-12 at 13:48 +0100, Rob Elliot wrote: > Hi all, > > We're using HTTP Client 4.x with httpclient-cache. Our system needs to > retrieve some metadata over HTTP that is returned in a Header Field, so it > only needs to make a HEAD request. However, as it stands httpclient-cache > does not cache the responses to HEAD requests. > > While the HTTP spec doesn't (by my reading) take a positive position on > whether or not you can cache responses to HEAD requests, there doesn't seem > any particular reason why they shouldn't be cached, with the obvious > proviso that a GET request to a resource which currently only has a cached > header must result in a request to origin, and that PUT, POST & DELETE > requests should all invalidate the cache for that resource as usual. > > We're considering extending httpclient-cache to make this possible, but we > don't want to lock ourselves out of upgrading forever. If we were to do so > and offer to contribute it back to the project would you be interested? > > Regards, > Rob >
Rob, The best course of action would be to raise a JIRA with a change request and attach propose changes as a patch in udiff format. Alternatively you might want to fork httpclient in github [1] and open a pull request with the project. Cheers Oleg [1] https://github.com/apache/httpclient --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@hc.apache.org
