expected behavior yes. Actual behavior, no
telnet aol.com 80 Trying 205.188.145.213... Connected to aolr-v1.evip.aol.com. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:04:18 GMT Server: AOLserver/3.4.2 Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 547 Connection: close telnet aol.com 80 Trying 205.188.145.213... Connected to aolr-v1.evip.aol.com. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.0 Host: aol.com HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:04:59 GMT Server: AOLserver/3.4.2 Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 547 Connection: close Connection closed by foreign host. Not everyone follows the RFCs. :) On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 13:55 -0400, Noah Robin wrote: > On Aug 18, 2004, at 1:09 PM, Chris Davies wrote: > > > > > It seems that a HEAD request is still processed by OpenACS, and even > > though it is a HEAD request, it does set up a session and set a cookie. > > > > As an FYI, the HTTP RFC basically states that servers should do all the > processing on a HEAD request that would happen for a GET request; this > ensures that the returned headers are accurate. See RFC 2616, Section > 9.4 (although there's not much more there than what I just mentioned). -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
