[Zope] more HEAD by Anonymous User... is making me nervous

Carl Blesius cblesius@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 02:05:47 +0200


More Undo Tab weirdness...

/medinfo/skincancer/skin_cancer/HEAD by Anonymous User
2001-10-25 11:33:18 PM
/medinfo/skincancer/glossary/HEAD by Anonymous User
2001-10-25 11:30:17 PM
/medinfo/skincancer/FAQ/HEAD by Anonymous User
2001-10-25 11:30:17 PM
/medinfo/skincancer/essentials/HEAD by Anonymous User
2001-10-25 11:30:17 PM
/medinfo/skincancer/resources/HEAD by Anonymous User
2001-10-25 11:30:17 PM
/medinfo/skincancer/services/HEAD by Anonymous User

I am still looking for an answer to my question.... What is this? If 
this is caused by a search spiders... is it not ZopeDB bloating 
funkyness that should not be happening?

Anyone? I need the HEAD of a non-Anonymous User to make me less 
nervous. ;)

Carl

On Montag, Oktober 22, 2001, at 03:55  Uhr, Casey Duncan wrote:

> On Monday 22 October 2001 08:30 am, Jens Vagelpohl allegedly wrote:
>> carl,
>>
>> no reason to panic. HEAD is a standard HTTP command just like GET, the
>> difference being that HEAD does not send the document contents, just
>> length and stuff like that.
>>
>> some spiders and web robots use HEAD to determine if a page has been
>> changed.
>>
>> jens
>>
>
> Why would a HEAD request show in the undo tab? That implies that a 
> database
> commit occurred in response to the request.
>
> Wierd.