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From: Rob Hartill <hartill@ooo.lanl.gov>
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Subject: Re: E63 send as is
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> > > What will a HEAD request on that document generate?
> >
> > Nothing, there are no headers as such. The "as is" type of
> > document isn't necessarily a HTTP response, it's whatever the
> > file contains.
> 
> But this _is_ HTTP. httpd should stop sending data after a blank line
> in the .asis file in response to a HEAD request.

probably. Is this the case for "nph" ? (I don't know)

robh