Re: handling HEAD requests

2000-12-15 Thread Robin Berjon
At 12:16 15/12/2000 -0800, Perrin Harkins wrote: >On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Robin Berjon wrote: >> I'm working on a modperl site that doesn't presently handle HEAD >> requests properly (it returns the entire content). > >If all the information you need to generate a given page is in the URL, >you can a

Re: handling HEAD requests

2000-12-15 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Robin Berjon wrote: > I'm working on a modperl site that doesn't presently handle HEAD > requests properly (it returns the entire content). If all the information you need to generate a given page is in the URL, you can also let mod_proxy cache it and handle the HEAD requests

handling HEAD requests

2000-12-15 Thread Robin Berjon
Hi, I'm working on a modperl site that doesn't presently handle HEAD requests properly (it returns the entire content). That's definitely a waste (especially seeing how browsers bang on it with HEAD requests), is not compliant, and makes telnet debugging a pain. I know how to detect a HEAD and t