[PATCH] hgweb: add HEAD method

Brodie Rao dackze at gmail.com
Mon Apr 13 16:42:41 CDT 2009


On Apr 13, 2009, at 4:54 PM, Alexander Solovyov wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Greg Ward <greg-hg at gerg.ca> wrote:
>> But... ummm... doesn't that make hgweb issue a response with a body,
>> which is exactly what HEAD is not supposed to do?  Or does the
>> framework that imposes the do_{GET,HEAD,POST} convention take care of
>> that by not sending the body?
>
> Looks like, at least "curl -I http://localhost:8000/" (that's big i)
> displays only headers.

It does look like it would send the entire response body.

Also, shouldn't there also be changes to the WSGI applications  
themselves? hgweb/hgwebdir still wouldn't respond to HEAD under CGI or  
WSGI, only the server started by hg serve would.


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