Hi Jan, thanks, that fixed it!
Norman On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- > >
