The HEAD method has been part of the HTTP protocol since HTTP 1.0.
Every HTTP server that supports at least 1.0 will have it (and
practically everything now supports the next version, 1.1).
So far as I'm aware, every version of Apache supports at least 1.0.
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Carric Dooley wrote:
> I'm told "HEAD" does not work with Apache.
>
> On Wed, 19 May 1999, Enrique Vadillo wrote:
>
> > If i understood well, you want to know what HTTP server and version is
> > running in a certain host, you can get that info with this string:
> >
> > HEAD / HTTP/1.0 <ENTER><ENTER>
> >
> > send it to port 80 of the host you wanna query, for example Micro$oft runs:
> >
> > # telnet www.microsoft.com 80
> > Trying 207.46.130.150...
> > Connected to microsoft.com.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > HEAD / HTTP/1.0
> >
> > HTTP/1.0 403 Access Forbidden
> > Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
> > Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 19:00:38 GMT
> > Content-Type: text/html
> > Content-Length: 172
> >
> > Connection closed by foreign host.
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