Hi, Am Montag 02 August 2004 15:28 schrieb Geoffrey Young: > > But my point is, for a HEAD request, there is no data so apache should > > not touch my content-length header. I really dislike to generate the full > > data for the request and apache throws it away ( and even the I get no > > Content-Length header ). > > for the record, this is fundamentally wrong. HEAD requests are supposed to > be identical to GET requests in every way _except_ that there is no message > body, which means that if a GET request for a specific resource does not > have a C-L header then a HEAD request for the same resource also _must_ not > have a C-L header. at least if you care about RFC compliance. >
??? I do not know what you mean, my GET request _has_ a content-lenght header! For HEAD, I just do not calculate the expencive data for my body. I just missed the content-length header on HEAD requests that is delivered on GET. > --Geoff -- Boris -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html