[Zope3-dev] Other (than GET and POST) HTTP Methods

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:50:47 +0000


Willem Broekema wrote:
> 
> The same is true for HEAD: it's both an important regular HTTP method 
> and used in WebDAV.
> 
> Zope 2.x always lets the WebDAV code handle HEAD requests, which is 
> wrong and leads to high unneeded bandwidth waste in certain situations: 
> <http://collector.zope.org/Zope/564>.

Is this the reason why you can also get loads of "NotFound" errors when HEAD's 
are issued to valid Zope URLs in 2.x?

cheers,

Chris