Re: [Zope] [BUG] [Zserver] GET and HEAD give different MIME types

On Tuesday 28 November 2000, at 21 h 18, the keyboard of Martijn Pieters <mj@digicool.com> wrote:

Note that you don't want the DTML code to be called on a HEAD request; it may have side effects a mere tpc_abort won't roll back.

I understand but this seems a deviation (I don't say a violation since the RFC says SHOULD and not MUST) from the RFC on HTTP (2616): 9.4 HEAD The HEAD method is identical to GET except that the server MUST NOT return a message-body in the response. The metainformation contained in the HTTP headers in response to a HEAD request SHOULD be identical to the information sent in response to a GET request. It is certainly a big problem for debugging or for robots which assume they can test with HEAD.