Hi Norman, On 19 May 2010, at 00:42, Norman Barker wrote:
> Hi, > > does couchdb support http head requests? I would like to retrieve the > e-tag but not the body? I have tried > > curl -X HEAD "http://localhost:5984/test/myid"; > > but it just hangs. This is "a feature" of curl. To do HEAD requests use: curl -I http://localhost:5984/test/myid CouchDB supports HEAD requests for most resources where it makes sense. Cheers Jan --
