- From: Karl-Otto Linn <linn@informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de>
- Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 23:57:19 +0200
- To: www-lib@w3.org
Hi, I have also made the observation that some servers reply on HEAD request not only a header but also some (HTML-) text in the hope that the Browser may do something usefull. Especially if you are doing a HEAD request on dynamically generated pages. Some Browser aswer with an status code => 500 other do something curious. That's why I have changed my version of the robot to do only get-requests even on the last (deepest) level. Karl-Otto Henrik Rosenfeldt wrote: > Hi, > > Please comment on this or tell me if it has been discussed before: > > 1. It seems to me that in some cases IIS4.0/5.0 treats a HEAD request as a > GET request resulting in the message body being sent with the HEAD response. > > 2. Libwww (possibly the MIME parser) cannot handle the above and therefore > fails? > > As an example I tried using the sample program getheaders on > http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/foobar. The returned response contains a > message body and no header fields are output! > > > Regards > Henrik Rosenfeldt > > >>>> VIGILANTe.com NOTICE - AUTOMATICALLY INSERTED <<<< > > The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to > which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged > material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or > taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or > entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. > > Any opinions expressed in this email are those of the individual and not > necessarily the Company. > > If you receive this transmission in error, please email to > postmaster@vigilante.com, including a copy of this message. Please then > delete this email and destroy any copies of it. > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> DISCLAIMER END <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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