RE: Re: Link checking (only)

Hi,
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this I received:
Walter Ian Kaye writes:
> Is there a standard way to check the existence of a URL resource without
> actually downloading it?

You can use the HEAD request instead of GET:

>telnet www.natural-innovations.com 80   #telnet to port 80
Trying 209.24.40.77...
Connected to www.natural-innovations.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0                   #syntax is "Method Request-URI HTTP-Version"
                                  #extra newline to signal end of request
HTTP/1.0 200 OK                   #response from server starts here
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 20:33:17 GMT
Server: BESTWWWD/1.0
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html

Connection closed by foreign host.

> Hmm, that brings up another question: How does one find out what
> commands are supported by different web servers?

The HTTP 1.0 request methods are GET, POST, and HEAD (see
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Protocols/rfc1945/rfc1945).  HTTP 1.1 defines
OPTIONS, GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, TRACE (see
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Protocols/rfc2068/rfc2068).

--Jeff

  = J-F Pitot de La Beaujardiere
  = delabeau@iniki.gsfc.nasa.gov
  = http://globe2.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Received on Monday, 12 May 1997 23:16:08 UTC