Re: [Zope-dev] RFC 2616, side effects, and idempotence (was: Last-Modified....)

2002-06-18 Thread Toby Dickenson
On Tuesday 18 Jun 2002 2:15 pm, R. David Murray wrote: RFC 2616 section 9.4 states that HEAD is identical to GET in this respect, and both should have no side effects. This bugged me the first time this discussion went around, and I feel impelled to clearify it now, even though it is a

Re: [Zope-dev] RFC 2616, side effects, and idempotence (was: Last-Modified....)

2002-06-18 Thread Oliver Bleutgen
R. David Murray wrote: On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Oliver Bleutgen wrote: Toby Dickenson wrote: Rendering may produce side effects. But HEAD requests are required by HTTP not to have side effects. RFC 2616 section 9.4 states that HEAD is identical to GET in this respect, and both should have no