Re: wwwoffle make GET from HEAD

Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.wwwoffle.user
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
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