Basically all the headers come back regardless of the type of request. You can discover this yourself via experimentation (sending HTTP requests by telnet to port 80).
If you're in an extremely bandwidth-constrained environment, try to group your requests together to minimize the per-request overhead. -Ryan On Mar 15, 12:32 am, zombie <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone know what is the minimum amount of data that the appengine > http response can return? > > I need the ***absolute*** minimum, counting both headers and data. > Actually, I don't even plan to return any data, just 1 bit of > information through (custom) status response codes like "201" (for OK) > or "501" (for ERR). > > (as to why, short answer: GPRS transfer charged per byte, lots of > requests) > > And since this is my custom app doing requests, I will not even use > GET request, probably just HEAD, or even PUT (or anything that will > help return the smallest amount of data). Also, any caching method > (that could help) is possible for me (IfModified/ETag?). > > Doing a normal "GET / HTTP/1.0" request on some appengine app, I get > this response headers: > > HTTP/1.0 200 OK > Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 > Cache-Control: no-cache > Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:00:48 GMT > Server: Google Frontend > Content-Length: 2906 > Connection: Close > > I can see from appengine documentation that you can't modify Content- > Length, Date and Server fields, so I suppose they can't be disabled > either. Is there a way to disable them, possibly using custom HTTP > commands (HEAD/PUT?)? > > Or just a simple redirection maybe? Are all those headers sent back > when your script does a simple HTTP 302 redirect? > > Thanks in advance > Tomislav Jovanovic --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
