Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3228068D2 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:38:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 30030 invoked by uid 500); 21 Jul 2011 17:38:48 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 29896 invoked by uid 500); 21 Jul 2011 17:38:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: dev@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list dev@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 29887 invoked by uid 99); 21 Jul 2011 17:38:47 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:38:47 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of bchesneau@gmail.com designates 209.85.215.52 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.85.215.52] (HELO mail-ew0-f52.google.com) (209.85.215.52) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:38:41 +0000 Received: by ewy28 with SMTP id 28so1998727ewy.11 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:38:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=QJ8XI3KsOb/1wZ7Zgp+lwaRubmVsM74s1rAI8/hI16c=; b=a4BX2w5urRMEndm4A2TwcspJTrMyTm2+YgvegL1arjl1ae7XOhK4au/guGaT95HhGm LLOhfwT33TeMEkir8TpRNUfoZkbXrmPYl30P/GPVIqyZE4tMTXFtqIUpgQRQ10N+IRpS zwtkPJ6sf9/GFo+7dregSBfrTMo8PHBFJhfJc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.4.138 with SMTP id 10mr460405ebr.125.1311269900040; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:38:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.213.22.20 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:38:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:38:19 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Confused handling of HEAD requests From: Benoit Chesneau To: dev@couchdb.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Randall Leeds wrote: > On Jul 21, 2011 2:33 AM, "Jan Lehnardt" wrote: >> >> Would any of this go away if we'd finally switched to Webmachine? > > All of it. > Though there are other problems like range handling and such things. I think HEAD could also work if we stop throwing and instead check states. - benoit