RE: Conditional HEAD not supported

> It seems we do not hande conditional HEAD requests.

[...]

> It is true that the specifications for status 304 does not
> mention HEAD
> (only GET). However, the specification for HEAD (9.4) does say that
> HEAD is identical to GET, and behaves in the same way except that no
> message body is returned. So it is reasonable to expect that
> the two can
> be exchanged in any part of the specification except where related to
> reply-message-body.

I second your interpretation.

> On the bright side we are not alone in this. The implementation of
> HEAD varies quite a lot between different servers. However,
> at least two
> major players (IIS and Apache) have read the specification in
> such a way
> that conditional HEAD is supported. (IIS is also one of the
> most common
> where HEAD is not compliant at all.. HEAD on a page processed
> by SSI is
> processed like GET, including reply-message-body)

Yuck.
Since Robert seems to have a contact at Microsoft's complaints center,
maybe we could bug them about this (but maybe they already know and just
don't care)...

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	/kinkie