0001026: Resin does not conform to HTTP spec for HEAD method

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0001026

[Resin]

minor

always

03-29-06 21:12

03-01-06 09:05

Reporter

mattryall

View Status

public

Assigned To

ferg

Priority

normal

Resolution

fixed

Platform

Status

closed

Projection

none

OS Version

ETA

none

Fixed in Version

3.0.19

Product Version

3.0.17

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Summary

0001026: Resin does not conform to HTTP spec for HEAD method

Description

According to the RFC 2616:

> The HEAD method is identical to GET except that the server
> MUST NOT return a message-body in the response.

Issuing a HEAD method to a Resin 2 or 3 server always returns the body of the content as well as the headers.

This puts unnecessary load on the network, and makes HEAD calls used by caches inefficient.

Steps To Reproduce

Additional Information

$ nc localhost 18080
HEAD http://localhost:18080/foobar [^] HTTP/1.1

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: Resin/3.0.17
Content-Type: text/html
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 05:10:28 GMT

00d4
<html>
<head><title>404 Not Found</title></head>
<body>
<h1>404 Not Found</h1>
/foobar was not found on this server.

<hr />
<small>
Resin-3.0.17 (built Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:11:34 PST)
</small>
</body></html>

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Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
03-29-06 21:12	mattryall	New Issue
03-01-06 09:05	ferg	Assigned To	=> ferg
03-01-06 09:05	ferg	Status	new => closed
03-01-06 09:05	ferg	Resolution	open => fixed
03-01-06 09:05	ferg	Fixed in Version	=> 3.0.19

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