Hello,
who downloaded the latest betas will have seen that development on the
"HEAD" method is ongoing. HEAD is used to retrieve meaninful information
of the page without downloading it all. It is used by spiders, browsers
and such to check for example if the content has changed or if the page
exists without congesting the server and the WEB.
This is all OK, but the RFC is really spare about the implementation of
HEAD.
Does anyone have suggestions? Post them here.
For example, how should HEAD act on CGI scripts? the server doesn't have
the whole page! There may be no head at all!
And head request on non HTML files? Intrinsecally "HEAD" is the
<HEAD></HEAD> part of a hypertext file!
-ric
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Hello,
who downloaded the latest betas will have seen that development on the
"HEAD" method is ongoing. HEAD is used to retrieve meaninful information
of the page without downloading it all. It is used by spiders, browsers
and such to check for example if the content has changed or if the page
exists without congesting the server and the WEB.
This is all OK, but the RFC is really spare about the implementation of
HEAD.
Does anyone have suggestions? Post them here.
For example, how should HEAD act on CGI scripts? the server doesn't have
the whole page! There may be no head at all!
And head request on non HTML files? Intrinsecally "HEAD" is the
<HEAD></HEAD> part of a hypertext file!
-ric