On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> Now what? We want to avoid having to send the whole file twice. I _think_
> the HEAD approach can still be used for POST since the URL exists already
> before the POST then, but we obviously need a new approach for PUT.

What would you say if we did a HEAD on the parent dir instead?

I honestly can't figure out any other way to avoid sending the whole contents
twice! I just can't understand how they thought this should work when they
wrote RFC2616.

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