Jigsaw sends entity body for HEAD requests

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 16:39:44 +0200 To: jigsaw@w3.org, site-comments@w3.org Message-ID: <3d856091.34442716@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Tuesday, 8 January 2008 14:23:04 GMT

Hi,

I am not sure whether this is a general Jigsaw problem or this is a
special case for some reason. Jigsaw as below sends an entity body
for HTTP HEAD requests, it must not do so:

  % http-head http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/
  HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
  Cache-Control: max-age=31104000
  Connection: close
  Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 14:35:57 GMT
  Content-Length: 1968
  Content-Location: http://lists.w3.org:80/Errors/401.html
  Content-Type: text/html
  Etag: "1ofub7f:sql517c0"
  Expires: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 14:35:57 GMT
  Last-Modified: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:15:58 GMT
  Server: Jigsaw/2.2.0
  WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="W3CACL"

  <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
  <HTML>
  <HEAD>
    <!-- Changed by: Travis Furrer, 15-Jul-1996 -->
    <TITLE> Error 401 </TITLE>
  ...

regards.