[Zope3-dev] Re: DISCUSS: Correct sequence for PUT

Jim Fulton jim@zope.com
Wed, 19 Feb 2003 17:58:37 -0500


Paul Everitt wrote:
> 
> Sorry, I forgot to ask in the last note: what is the status of the HEAD 
> request?
> 
> It appears to return something, and in fact it looks mostly correct 
> (both for valid and missing URLs).  Can I consider HEAD to be d-u-n done?

There's a default HEAD that does the same computation as a GET and then empties
the body. I believe that that behavior is correct.

Objects can implement their own HEAD handlers.

> Any chance I can get DELETE? :^)

Absolutely. :)

Jim


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