It's worth pointing out that while WSGI apps in general have that issue, webob (and thus pyramid apps) automatically handle this.
1) webob automatically truncates the body on a head request. 2) pyramid automatically configures any view that takes `request_method='GET'` to also take HEAD and documents that it does that. - Michael On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 4:46 PM Bert JW Regeer <xiste...@0x58.com> wrote: > If your WSGI application for instance does not natively support HEAD > requests, because it only handles GET requests, you can use this middleware > to do the rewrite, have your WSGI app return the whole response, and > Guillotine will then return a body less response to the remote client. > > Bert > > On Oct 18, 2019, at 15:47, Jens Troeger <jens.troe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > Today I stumbled upon a somewhat dated Pylons project called Guillotine > <https://github.com/Pylons/guillotine>, a WSGI middleware > <https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/1.10-branch/glossary.html#term-middleware> > extension. It seems to have only one purpose: rewrite the request method of > HEAD requests into GET. > > Now I am curious about the *why*. A HEAD request is, as per documentation > <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Methods/HEAD>, pretty > much a GET without body. So what’s the purpose then of this particular > extension and the rewrite? > > Much thanks, > Jens > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pylons-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to pylons-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pylons-discuss/cd9466d9-47ce-410f-9b36-5a47417cf8f2%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pylons-discuss/cd9466d9-47ce-410f-9b36-5a47417cf8f2%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pylons-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to pylons-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pylons-discuss/F107895E-EF6E-4FEA-8971-AC414FADC28A%400x58.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pylons-discuss/F107895E-EF6E-4FEA-8971-AC414FADC28A%400x58.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Michael -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pylons-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pylons-discuss/CAKdhhwHaxnMyu%3D%2BcS6rzGWiGcb0L83i-pdCrCFvD-94WYHz0fg%40mail.gmail.com.
