RE: Head response Transfer-Encoding: chunked?

• From: Henry Sanders (Exchange) <henrysa@exchange.microsoft.com>
• Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 10:47:04 -0700
• To: HTTP Working Group <cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@http-wg.uucp>
• Message-Id: <7D9A01DBBFD5CF11AD0F0000F8411F8AA4D431@ROADKILL>

> My interpretation of the spec is that the HEAD response should contain
> *exactly* the headers it would if the method had been GET.  I have to
> admit that today our server does the same as Apache and Agranat, but
> assuming that others agree I plan to fix that.
> 
	That's the way I interpreted it. Our server sends either
Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding: chunked in a HEAD response -
usually Content-Length since there aren't very many cases where we issue
a chunked response. 

	Henry

Received on Thursday, 18 September 1997 11:07:37 UTC