[ZODB-Dev] Browser send HEAD is weird?

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Fri, 06 Sep 2002 12:57:19 +0100


Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
>>What's weird, of course, is that I can get the home page on the
>>first try (and only on the first try), but I can't get even that
>>from a browser.
> 
> Maybe the browser makes a HEAD request first.  Browsers are weird like
> that.

Isn't that how a lot of browser caching works as HEAD responses are supposed to 
be cheap to generate?

cheers,

Chris