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Re: GET HEAD to Proxy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory J. Woodhouse)
Thu Apr 11 16:19:14 1996
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 13:04:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Gregory J. Woodhouse" <gjw@wnetc.com>
To: "John W. James" <jjames@firstfloor.com>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <9604111714.0D0584@james-hill-farm.firstfloor.COM.firstfloor.COM>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Actually, you just want to use HEAD as in
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
I suspect the server was confused by seeing two methods (GET and HEAD)
in the same request.
On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, John W. James wrote:
> Is a GET HEAD call supposed to work when a proxy is in use by
> the client? We had one caching proxy server that was returning
> a 500, but the server is in beta and I kind of dismissed this
> as the possible cause. I'm now seeing it at a customer's site,
> and that makes me think this might be something systemic.
>
> John
>
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