- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 01:43:48 -0800
- To: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
>Our intuition is that, based on the language in 9.4, any headers >allowed with GET should be allowed with HEAD (and interpreted >the same way by the server). I.e., the language in 14.24 >should be changed to > The If-Modified-Since request-header field is used with the > GET (or HEAD) method to make it conditional ... That is what we decided the last time this issue was discussed, which is why Apache was changed accordingly. >or even > The If-Modified-Since request-header field is used with a > method to make it conditional ... That would lead to complications. The semantics of If-Modified-Since (return 200 if true, 304 if false) do not make any sense for other methods. ....Roy
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