- From: Anselm Baird-Smith <abaird@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 22:36:18 +0500
- To: alex@access.com.au (Alexandre Rafalovitch)
- Cc: www-jigsaw@w3.org
Alexandre Rafalovitch writes: > Hi, > > This is a small question on HTTP protocol that I think Jigsaw is not > implementing correctly. > > In RFC 1945, HTTP/1.0 it states for HEAD request: > " There is no 'conditional HEAD' request analogous to the conditional GET. > If an If-Modified-Since header field is included with a HEAD request, it > should be ignored". > > The default implementation does not take that into consideration, so a HEAD > request might well end up with NOT_MODIFIED as a responce. > Is that important and deserves fixing and clear statement for everybody > overriding HEAD or it would never break anything and is not worth thinking > about it? Wow you are right ! I was too lazy to put a makeHeaders() method in the FileResource, but I am going to do it ASAP (so that both get and head compute fill in the initial reply through this new makeHeaders - or whatever). Thanks, Anselm.
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