Re: #227: HEAD and Caches

fre 2012-03-02 klockan 09:01 +0100 skrev Erlend Hamnaberg:

> In a related note: Is it allowed for a cache to rewrite a HEAD request
> to a GET if there previously is no entity stored for that request? 
> Maybe there should be some text on that, or is that an implementation
> detail?

I see no reason why not. HEAD and GET are semantically equivalent, only
differing in if the client wants the response entity or just it's
metadata.

Regards
Henrik

Received on Friday, 2 March 2012 12:05:22 UTC