Re: checklink: what does this error mean?

From: Terje Bless (link@pobox.com)
Date: Wed, Sep 19 2001

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    Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:22:48 +0200
    From: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
    To: www-validator@w3.org
    Message-ID: <20010919175512-r01010800-60841ace-0910-010c@192.168.1.6>
    Subject: Re: checklink: what does this error mean?
    
    On 18.09.01 at 18:05, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote:
    
    >But the server incorrectly rejects HTTP HEAD requests:
    >
    >  Server: Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 SP1
    
    It looks like this server either doesn't support HEAD (in violation of the
    HTTP spec.), comes pre-configured to reject them, and/or is easy to
    misconfigure this way. This is the second time I've seen that particular
    server exhibit this problem (the other was mozilla.org).