On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:08:08PM +1000, Graham Dumpleton wrote: > Okay. What though are the implications of content still being returned > for a HEAD request. What does the standard say about that?
RFC 2616, 9.4 HEAD The HEAD method is identical to GET except that the server MUST NOT return a message-body in the response. The metainformation contained in the HTTP headers in response to a HEAD request SHOULD be identical to the information sent in response to a GET request. Ok, now that I read the standard again, it seems that the preferable way to implement this is to somehow prevent the bytes written from being sent. Though I have no idea how the user agents would react if they did receive a message body on HEAD. -- Tmi Juha-Matti Tapio Puh/Tel. +358-50-5419230 Y-tunnus 1911527-0 Fax +358-9-34756631
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