Okay. What though are the implications of content still being returned
for a HEAD request. What does the standard say about that?
On 10/08/2005, at 10:01 PM, Juha-Matti Tapio wrote:
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.
