I was implementing HEAD on a resource and couldn't figure out how to do it so I looked at the source for Resource.handleHead() and was surprised to see it calls handleGet(). My understanding of HEAD is that it provides all but the entity. That seems to imply that that getRepresentation() needs to check what method is used and special case HEAD somehow. That is awkward and inconsistent with the rest of the method handling paradigm.
One solution is to provide allowHead() and head(). It might make sense to implement head() by calling getRepresentation() but this approach doesn't require it and fits better with the current method handling style. Sean
