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Re: [Doh] Support requirements for Head

Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> Sun, 18 March 2018 13:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Doh] Support requirements for Head
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On Sun, 18 Mar 2018, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> My personal opinion is "if you support GET, you MUST support HEAD". Any HTTP 
> advice? (Technically, it's nothing, the vast majority of DoH clients and 
> servers already handle HEAD.)

That is not strictly stated in RFC 7231 and the web is already populated with 
lots of servers that don't respond to HEAD while responding fine to GET.

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