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

Andy McKay andym@ActiveState.com
Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:16:07 -0700


What kinds of objects are they? There was a bug where by Python Scripts were
being recompiled on Windows (Python 1.5.2, Zope 2.3) and it shows up in the
Undo. I had a similar fit.

Cheers.
--
  Andy McKay.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Blesius" <cblesius@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: "Casey Duncan" <c.duncan@nlada.org>
Cc: "Jens Vagelpohl" <jens@zope.com>; <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 5:05 PM
Subject: [Zope] more HEAD by Anonymous User... is making me nervous


> 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.
>
>
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