[ZODB-Dev] Browser send HEAD is weird?

[Greg Ward]

On 06 September 2002, Chris Withers said:
> Fair enough :-)
> 
> So, what are HEAD requests used for then?

Checking that something exists without actually retrieving it.  Very
handy for link checkers.

(I dunno how it is with Zope, but with Quixote, HEAD requests are just
as expensive for the server as a GET, modulo bandwidth.  I suppose that
could be optimized away in most cases... hmmm.  So really all you save
with HEAD is bandwidth.)

        Greg
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