Remove excessive HEAD requests for URL repository
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Key: IVY-996
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-996
Project: Ivy
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Core
Affects Versions: 2.0-RC2
Reporter: Eric Anderson
h3. Fixing useless extra HEAD requests
When searching for an artifact named "project" version "2.2.+" for organization
"org", Ivy attempts HEAD requests for completely not possible versions.
IE: /org/project/0.9.2/ivy-0.9.2.xml
This is not terribly painful unless you have thousands of builds and are not on
the same network as your ivy server.
h3. Are HEAD requests even necessary?
Simply getting a directory listing should be good enough to determine if there
is an artifact (for choosing latest-release). Now, after one is chosen, if no
ivy.xml file exists, I could understand trying the next one, but trying all of
them, just to select the latest one anyways seems like a complete waste.
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