Re: Comments on draft HTTP/1.1 spec, v3

On Fri, 1 May 1998, Dave Kristol wrote:

> That leads me to my own question:  If there's an error on a HEAD
> request, should the server return an entity, or just the headers. 
> (Apparently the latter.)  Example:
> 
> HEAD / HTTP/1.1
> <CRLF>
> 
> There's no Host header, so the server responds "400 Bad Request".  With,
> or without, entity?

  I asked essentially this question a year or so ago - the consensus
then was that a response to HEAD _never_ gets a body.

Received on Friday, 1 May 1998 09:55:46 UTC