[ZODB-Dev] Browser send HEAD is weird?

[Andrew Kuchling]

On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 12:57:19PM +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
>Isn't that how a lot of browser caching works as HEAD responses are 
>supposed to be cheap to generate?

I doubt it, because doing first a HEAD and then a GET would require
two TCP round trips.  Caches and browsers (correct ones, anyway)
should be doing a GET with an 'If-Modified-Since' header.  See section
14.25 of RFC2616:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html .

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