Re: HEAD requests

On 10 September 2013 16:15, Steve Speicher <sspeiche@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Melvin,
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> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>> Is it a requirement of LDP servers to support HEAD requests as well as
>> GET.  Is it implied that since you can do a GET, you will be able to do a
>> HEAD?
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> Yes, that is the case.  It is not implied really, it is explicitly stated
> in the spec that you need to support HEAD.  The motivation (recalling WG
> discussions) was that a number of scenarios were seen as valuable to be
> able to do various tests on the URL and also receive additional data (such
> as paging and type headers), instead of needing to fetch the entire
> resource (perhaps a container and all its members).  Also the effort to
> support HEAD in addition to GET is relatively small (just omit the entity
> body in the response).
>

Perfect, thanks!


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> Hope that helps,
> - Steve Speicher
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