Re: new editorial(?) issue HEAD_WITH_IMS

>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