Nitin,
what exactly are you trying to do?
Both POST and GET return the headers. The only difference with HEAD is that
it reurns the headers but no data?
Kevin Jones
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> -----Original Message-----
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> API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nitin
> Khattar
> Sent: 19 September 2000 07:35
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: the doHead() method
>
>
> Even Netscape 6 doesn't support the doHead method . I cannot
> believe this.
> Can somebody name at least one browser which supports the HEAD method?
>
> Is there any other way(except the doHead() method) by which i can see the
> response headers?
>
> any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> regards
> Nitin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "nitin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 11:54 AM
> Subject: Re: the doHead() method
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> > I tried it on IE 5.0 and Netscape 4.7. it doesn't work on either.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Matthias Carlsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 6:03 PM
> > Subject: SV: the doHead() method
> >
> >
> > > I'm not 100% sure about this one, but I believe your browser doesn't
> > > support the HEAD method and therefore uses the default one - GET -
> > > when calling your servlet.
> > >
> > > [ Matthias Carlsson ]
> > > [ Programmer (Java, CGI/Perl, Javascript, HTML) ] [ Web Designer ]
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> > > > -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> > > > Fr�n: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java
> Servlet
> > > > API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]F�r Nitin
> Khattar
> > > > Skickat: den 17 september 2000 10:39
> > > > Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > �mne: the doHead() method
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > hi
> > > >
> > > > I want to see only the headers of the response.
> > > > So i called the HEAD method. However the browser prints the data(as
> it
> > > > would if i had called the GET method) instead of printing the
> headers.
> > > >
> > > > can anyone point out whats going wrong?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Nitin
> > > >
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