RE: HEAD request

["Paul Melson" <pmelson () gmail com>]

-----Original Message-----
Subject: HEAD request

> When I issue HEAD request using nc I don't get any response from the
webserver and I get disconnected 
> after some time.
> What should i conclude from that?Does it mean that the administrator has
blocked HEAD requests?

Probably not.  If the HEAD method is disabled in the web server, it would
normally issue a 405 error.  It sounds more like an in-line proxy control.
The silent drop without error sounds like maybe a Symantec firewall.  Hard
to say without more detail, though.  It's not likely (since HEAD is a pretty
simple request type), but you can't rule out the possibility of a
configuration/code error on the web server itself.

PaulM


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