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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:00:33 -0700
From: Stephen Carville <stephen@nationwide-totalflood.com>
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Subject: [users@httpd] POSTing to non-executable file

Is there a good way for a client program to check for the existance of a 
file on a remote server before attempting a download?  Kind of an http 
version of the ls command.

We have a software program that checks for the existance of a file by
doing an empty POST to the URL.  This works with apache 2.0.52 but fails 
on 1.3.20 with an error 405:

The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /pdf/temp/16557996.pdf.

Whatever technique I use has to work on both 1.3 and 2.0 so I'd like to 
know if there is a better way.

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Stephen Carville

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