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Re: Content-Length in HEAD responses

From: Justin Erenkrantz <justin_at_erenkrantz.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 22:59:02 -0500

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:15 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>wrote:

> request, so I'm wondering ... does Apache just handle a HEAD as a GET
> under-the-hood and then discard the resulting response body? The comment
>

Unless the handler does something special, yes, httpd will treat HEAD as a
GET until it is time to send the response body...and simply drops the
response body. -- justin
Received on 2012-11-10 04:59:38 CET

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