RE: http/1.1 requirements

> Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
> >
> > Note: I don't know of any user client which uses HEAD. I
> have only seen
> > robots like wget and various search engines use HEAD.
>
> There are some...well...at least one. I can't name it, but
> I've seen it's
> requests. I suspect strongly that it's a MacOS application.

I use it via telnet quite often, thank you.

> What burns my socks is when an Origin Server returns a body
> with the response to
> a HEAD (because we're talking to a CGI that ignores the
> request method, and
> assumes everything must be a GET). Some webservers cut the
> body off before
> returning the HEAD response; Some return a server error; Some
> leave it on.

Ugh. That is No Good (TM).

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	/kinkie