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Re: "--head" and "--request" Options Together

From: Thuc Nguyen via curl-users <curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 14:54:18 -0800

Thanks Daniel. The blog post was helpful.

I mainly wanted to confirm what I was observing. The client in this case is
actually Homebrew. I opened an issue
<https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/10817> to have it looked at.

Thanks again,
Thuc

On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 2:15 PM Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Mar 2021, Thuc Nguyen via curl-users wrote:
>
> > What's the expected behavior when both "--head" and "--request GET"
> options
> > are provided?
>
> Mostly sadness and confused users. I once wrote a blog post on this topic:
>
> https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/09/11/unnecessary-use-of-curl-x/
>
> --head means that curl will send a HEAD and *not* wait for a response
> body,
> because HEAD responses have no bodies.
>
> When you add --request to the equation, curl will still *think* it makes a
> HEAD but you change the actual method verb to "GET" and thus the server
> will
> respood with a response body, but curl will not read it because it still
> knows
> you're doing a HEAD.
>
> > I'm able to reproduce with the latest version 7.75.0. I happen to have
> an
> > older version, 7.29.0, and can't reproduce it there. So it seems that
> the
> > behavior was changed in recent versions.
>
> What behavior were you hoping for?
>
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-- 
Thuc


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