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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Ryan Bloom <rb...@covalent.net> on 2002/03/12 19:35:48 UTC

RE: Content-length returned from HEAD requests?

It is a requirement from the spec.  HEAD requests should behave exactly
as GET requests do, except there is no body.

Ryan

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Ryan Bloom                  rbb@covalent.net
645 Howard St.              rbb@apache.org
San Francisco, CA 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Bannert [mailto:aaron@clove.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:48 AM
> To: dev@httpd.apache.org
> Subject: Content-length returned from HEAD requests?
> 
> Is it valid for Content-length to be returned from these types
> of requests? daedalus is showing it, and I'm seeing it in current CVS.
> 
> -aaron