Re: wwwoffle make GET from HEAD
Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.wwwoffle.user |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
> > This is a problem, because my browser makes a HEAD before downloading a
> > file and makes in a second call the GET. I use "lock-file = yes". On big
> > files the second call is denied from getting the file, because its locked
> > by the first HEAD call.
> What browser are you using that makes a HEAD request followed by a GET
> request?
Both IE and Mozilla-derived browsers do that on file downloads (that's
how they can display the file size and the MIME type in the ``save
as'' dialog).
Juliusz