On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:00:31PM +1000, Graham Dumpleton wrote: > I guess the question I have is whether it is worthwhile supporting > "HEAD" in the first place with mod_python.publisher? What does one > actually gain, especially when it will not strictly work in all > situations?
The RFC specifies that HEAD should return the headers as does GET. I have summarized the details in: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=297289 HEAD not working causes problems for example when some versions of Firefox use HEAD to check if the file has changed when saving a document that is currently open. I personally would prefer if this worked properly at least on the most common cases. It is a really difficult error to trace (by adminstrators) when the browser suddenly claims that the currently open mod_python-generated document can not be saved because it does not exist.
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