Mailing-List: contact user-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: user@couchdb.apache.org
Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of david.coallier@gmail.com
 designates 209.85.218.221 as permitted sender)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws;
        d=gmail.com; s=gamma;
        h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to
         :content-type:content-transfer-encoding;
        b=I/opquhtap1PY72faY7d9ZnA+RxFl7v0HCPPSz6qcCqi7qx4UIZzEQr8uJmG1Ow2ab
         c2jFh3rNiR2U5tCe+/EXUNRUYTcKnXo/Opdu82qf3vCq4FkgZwtKyLaXfwBy6J781jFR
         FBRWgWZMtWPGBrSwMgtP0NswC53Qa08NkGELs=
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <4BD81274.8040101@vpro.nl>
References: <y2ldc4448cd1004260605o527019e5g4beb584f176bfeb9@mail.gmail.com>
	 <5F20F813-F1F5-4786-97F9-3416C1468B5B@gmail.com>
	 <4BD81274.8040101@vpro.nl>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:57:40 +0100
Message-ID: <q2lb5f7bf6c1004280357x41e1ae2by67cda682c132ddb8@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Couchdb document size
From: David Coallier <david.coallier@gmail.com>
To: user@couchdb.apache.org
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

No matter what client you are using really, just make a HEAD request
to the resource and it should return you the headers data (As
Content-Length) just as if it was the GET request but without an
actual body.

On a more general note that might get be of interest, this is a
RESTful concept, and usually real RESTful services will allow you to
post HEAD requests to resources which you can use it to validate the
existence of (user, document, etc) without requesting the whole
document body (Or for any potential reasons for that matter)

Hope it helps :)

2010/4/28 Nils Breunese <N.Breunese@vpro.nl>:
> Alexander Uvarov wrote:
>
>> curl -I -X HEAD "http://localhost:5984/dbname/your_doc_id"
>
> -I (or --head) already does a HEAD request, so there is no need to add
> -X HEAD.
>
> Nils.
>
> De informatie vervat in deze =C2=A0e-mail en meegezonden bijlagen is uits=
luitend
> bedoeld voor gebruik door de geadresseerde en kan vertrouwelijke informat=
ie
> bevatten. Openbaarmaking, vermenigvuldiging, verspreiding en/of verstrekk=
ing
> van deze informatie aan derden is voorbehouden aan geadresseerde. De VPRO
> staat niet in voor de juiste en volledige overbrenging van de inhoud van =
een
> verzonden e-mail, noch voor tijdige ontvangst daarvan.
>


--=20
David Coallier