Re: HEAD message

"James A. Donald" wrote:
>
> RFC 2616 says that the presence of a body is signaled by the presence of a
> content-length or transfer-encoding header, but it also says that the
> response to a HEAD request should be the same as that to a get request, but
> without the body.
>
> So does a response to a HEAD request contain the content-length, but no
> body, in contradiction to what is said in RFC2616 - 4.3?

Wanna see some breakage? squid/bin/client http://home.microsoft.com/

Try to spot the difference between the object header and body :/

D
Received on Thu Aug 26 1999 - 19:36:31 MDT