Re: HEAD message

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
> Are you sure you are not confusing GET IMS with HEAD?
>
> HEAD gets the object headers only. (or at least is supposed to..)
>
> GET IMS is commonly used to validate a cached entity, not HEAD.
>
> About the only tool I know of which uses HEAD to validate it's "cached"
> objects is wget.

Search-engines, too.

>
> --
> Henrik Nordstrom
> Spare time Squid hacker
>
> Dancer wrote:
> > Well, according to the logs, HEAD requests account for forty-one percent
> > of the requests to this server, with GET requests accounting for
> > virtually all the remainder. That's quite a lot, really.
Received on Wed Sep 01 1999 - 15:36:57 MDT