HEAD method

[Andre Garzia]

I've seen servers complaining about the lack of Date header in the
request, does anyone knows if it is mandatory for HTTP/1.1?

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Dave Cragg <dave.cragg at lacscentre.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 28 Jan 2009, at 19:49, Andre Garzia wrote:
>
>> check the liburlsetcustomhttpheaders command, it will allow you to
>> specify a different set of headers, you can use that to do HEAD calls
>> without the need to script low level socket routines.
>>
>> cheers
>> andre
>
> This is possible but you will have to ignore any errors in "the result".
> Also, you should add "Connection: close" as one of the headers. Otherwise
> depending on the server, libUrl may timeout while waiting to read data from
> the socket. (libUrl will think it's handling a GET) And you probably want to
> stop redirects (libUrlFollowHttpRedirects).
>
> I'm not sure that Brian's idea is much more difficult, but the script below
> should work. (But see Trevor's comment about authentication. )
>
> Assume the url is "http://www.runrev.com/freebeer.html"
>
> on mouseUp
>
>  libUrlFollowHttpRedirects false
>  put "HEAD" && "/freebeer.html" && "HTTP/1.1" into tRequest
>  put cr & "User-Agent: Revolution" after tRequest
>  put cr & "Host:" && "www.runrev.com" after tRequest
>  put cr & "Connection: close" after tRequest
>  libURLSetCustomHTTPHeaders tRequest
>  get url "http://www.runrev.com/"
>
>  put libUrlLastRhHeaders()
>  libUrlFollowHttpRedirects true ##RESET
> end mouseUp
>
> Cheers
> Dave
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