[Zope] Should this make me nervous?

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:13:18 +0000


Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> 
> 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.

I have, for years, been noticing that we get _loads_ of these HEAD requests that
cause errors.

Why is this?

(lemme know if you want a traceback, I have many :-P)

cheers,

Chris