[Zope] HEAD Requests

[Martijn Pieters]

At 06:17 05/05/99 , Paulo Eduardo Neves wrote:
>Hi,
>
>My Zope isn't accepting HEAD HTTP requests. I'm receiving 404 'Not
>Found' errors. GET requests work as expected.
>
>Is it usual or is a problem with my configuration? Is there any way to
>fix it?
>
>I'm using the source Zope 1.10.2 with Apache 1.3.3 in an AIX4.1 machine. 
>
>This is very serious! Search engines robots usually first make a HEAD
>request and, just if the file has changed, makes the GET. If HEADs
>aren't working, my site won't appear in ANY search engine. 
>

Zope 1.11pr1 does return information on HEAD requests, because of it's
webDAV support. The information returned is not always accurate however. It
does not recognize the fact that a GET request on a folder will return a
call to the index_html method (if it exists through aquisition, that is.).
If the index_html document _doesn't_ exist, HEAD still returns a 200 OK...

Hmm.. this all sounds like a bug, where is my bookmark for the Collector..


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