Re: OK server returning 500 Server Error - why?

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Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cs.washington.edu> writes:
>> Seems the server simply doesn't like "HEAD" requests.... Who knows
>> why they (mis)configured their server to disable "HEAD"...

"Jeremy D. Impson" <jdimpson@source.syr.edu> writes:
> I've seen this with couple Netscape 3.5 Enterprise servers.  So my
> code checks for 5XX errors when doin HEAD and reconnects with a GET.

Worse, I've encountered some Netscape-served sites which return
substantially different headers (in particular, different
Content-Length and Last-Modified) when a HEAD is performed instead of
a GET (e.g., both the current and old ESPN site).

-ccwf

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