On 09/06/22 15:40, Harald Oehlmann wrote:
The switch has been around ever since and it's only function is to
force mod_rivet to return a "text/html" message avoiding actual script
execution.
if (private->r->header_only &&
!private->running_conf->honor_head_requests)
{
TclWeb_SetHeaderType(DEFAULT_HEADER_TYPE, private->req);
TclWeb_PrintHeaders(private->req);
retval = OK;
goto sendcleanup;
}
Thus no meaningful information is returned if HonorHeadRequests is
false (default)
-- Massimo
I would call that a bug. Head should be handled correctly.
Thank you for caring,
Harald
In hindsight it's probably so. We are thinking quite alike, before I
read your message I was considering to open a bug in order to document
either the removal or the change of the default for boolean
honor_head_request
I remember the configuration directive that allowed to have real HEAD
responses was one of my earliest contributions to mod_rivet in 2007 or
2008. I needed to have meaningful data from a HEAD request but as a
newcomer I didn't want to change abruptly the original behavior of the
code in branch 1_0 (never released) assuming there was some good reason
for it. I have some faint memory that it had been chosen to shunt code
execution for HEAD requests for performance reasons
more thoughts?
-- Massimo
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