Re: Comments on draft HTTP/1.1 spec, v3
Scott Lawrence (lawrence@agranat.com)
Fri, 1 May 1998 12:39:07 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Dave Kristol wrote:
> That leads me to my own question: If there's an error on a HEAD
> request, should the server return an entity, or just the headers.
> (Apparently the latter.) Example:
>
> HEAD / HTTP/1.1
> <CRLF>
>
> There's no Host header, so the server responds "400 Bad Request". With,
> or without, entity?
I asked essentially this question a year or so ago - the consensus
then was that a response to HEAD _never_ gets a body.