Hello Jay

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Love, Jay wrote:
> Yeah, I've has this in the back of my head for a while that we need to
> handle these.  We should just map it to the standard GET handler for now, I
> think.  I don't think it'll do any damage to send a body in response, but
> someone should verify that.

I think it should at least be possible for the servlet to determine if
it was called due to a HEAD or to a GET request (in order to handle
them different). In some cases (which matter for our application) it
may be much more time consuming to get a lot of data from a database
to build a page than to simply fetch a date of last modification and
return that to the client.

The difference would not so much concern "normal" users but search
engines. These sometimes fetch many "pages" via HEAD to check if they
would have to be re-fetched and indexed in total.

Stefan



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