- From: Daniel DuBois <ddubois@rafiki.spyglass.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 15:18:15 -0500
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
At 10:04 PM 8/25/95 -0400, Roy Fielding wrote: >Paul Leech reports: >>the description for 300, it explictly says that 300 in response to a >>HEAD request doesn't return an Entity-Body; there is no explicit >>exemption for 301, 302, or 303. >> >>plausible is that 301, 302, and 303 should contain the same exception >>for HEAD that 300 contains. I don't know the intent, so I can't make a >>recommendation. >> >>Which should it be? > >The latter -- I'll fix this in both specs. To reaffirm: HEAD requests NEVER produce an entity body; anywhere the spec implies that there might/should/could be a body, the HEAD rule overrules it? ----- Dan DuBois, Software Animal ddubois@spyglass.com (708) 505-1010 x532 http://www.spyglass.com/~ddubois/
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