Herold Heiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> From: Hrvoje Niksic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> With the HEAD method you never know when you'll stumble upon a CGI >> that doesn't understand it and that will send the body anyway. But >> maybe it would actually be a better idea to read (and discard) the >> body than to close the connection and reopen it. > > Wouldn't that be suboptimal in case that page is huge (and/or the > connection slow) ?
You are right, it would. But it might make good sense for redirections, which typically have very small bodies.
