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Re: Fetching HEAD 404, Fetching BODY 200

From: Viktor Molnar <viktor.molnar_at_inbox.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:43:09 -0800

Thank you for explanation

Viktor

> -----Original Message-----
> From: yetanothergeek_at_gmail.com
> Sent: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:56:26 -0500
> To: curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se
> Subject: Re: Fetching HEAD 404, Fetching BODY 200
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Viktor Molnar <viktor.molnar_at_inbox.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I wrote a script to check, if some websites are OK.
>> It's done via fetching HEAD from HTTP.
>>
>> But I found website, where CURL HEAD is returning 404 status code,
>> but if I try to fetch HEAD with BODY, status code is 200.
>> Also, wget is working fine, just try these two commands on this website:
>>
>> curl -I http://www.youtube.com/ESETSK
>> wget -S http://www.youtube.com/ESETSK
>>
>
> Using the -S option with wget just means it will also print the
> headers, but it is still doing a GET request, and it is still
> rerieving the file. To make wget only do a HEAD, you need to use
> the --spider option. In that case wget will also return a 404,
> indicating that the server does not honor HEAD requests.
>
>
> - Jeff
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