Hello Stephan, well indeed that's what I'm doing right now. on the @Get-annoated method I'm doing something like:
if (Method.HEAD.equals(getMethod()) { // HEAD req } else { // GET req } Thanks. On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Stephan Koops <stephan.ko...@web.de> wrote: > Hi Fabian, > > because GET and HEAD have a very near semantic, it is the same. The only > difference is, that you are not required to send the entity body. > If you want to optimize, than you could get the method from the request, > and than decide, if you have to read the full entity boy, for example. > Don't forget, that you have to set the entity headers, also in HEAD. > > best regards > Stephan > > Fabian Mandelbaum schrieb: >> Hello there, >> >> why doesn't Reslet (at least as of V2.0RC4) have an @Head annotation >> to handle HEAD requests? >> >> Currently HEAD requests are being handled by GET handlers (at least >> that's what's happening with my annotated resources). Why is this so? >> Is there any reason why there's no @Head annotation? >> >> I'd need such annotation and wanted to hear about this before going on >> and implementing the @Head annotation myself modelled based on @Get. >> Thanks in advance > > ------------------------------------------------------ > http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2631048 > -- Fabián Mandelbaum IS Engineer ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2631449