Re: wwwoffle make GET from HEAD

Andrew M. Bishop <amb-Uxr6IM1mbv2TY6FTCsQk+9Bc4/[email protected]> wrote:
> Joerg Sommer <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> if I connect to my wwwoffle and make "HEAD http://www.test.de/ HTTP/1.1"
>> wwwoffle makes a get on the outside.
>> 
>> 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?

Galeon, but Mozilla do so too. Hold down the shift key while clicking on
a link.

>> Why wwwoffle makes a get, when I ask for head? If I check my bookmarks, I
>> take a "wget -i bookmarks.html --spider". This cause wwwoffle to download
>> all pages named in my bookmark file.
>
> WWWOFFLE makes a GET request when you ask for a HEAD because it does
> not know that you are going to ask for a GET later and the HEAD data
> would be useless or worse.

But maybe the HEAD includes informations they let you make a decision to
download or not. If you see, the file is to large, you don't start
downloading it.


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