When does IE 6.0 send a HEAD request?

[Guest]

I am writing a sort of pared-down web server and need to handle HEAD
requests. Can someone please tell me how to make IE 6.0 send HEAD requests? I
experimented with the different options for "check for new versions of web
pages" setting in the Temporary Internet Files dialog but could not get IE to
send HEAD requests (always got GET requests).

Thanks a lot,
Rookie

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

I am writing a sort of pared-down web server and need to handle HEAD
requests. Can someone please tell me how to make IE 6.0 send HEAD requests?

Try telnet with port 80? Alternatively get something like ProxOmitron
which can intercept the datastream and change it. (I don't know if it
has provision for that change or not. If not you could write your own
proxy to do that.)


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