using RFC2616

Using RFC2616 what is the difference between a server response to the HEAD and GET client requests?

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re: using RFC2616

If you Google or Wikipedia "RFC 2616" you will immediately get the answer to this question.

re: using RFC2616

HEAD
Asks for the response identical to the one that would correspond to a GET request, but without the response body. This is useful for retrieving meta-information written in response headers, without having to transport the entire content.
GET
Requests a representation of the specified resource. Note that GET should not be used for operations that cause side-effects, such as using it for taking actions in web applications. One reason for this is that GET may be used arbitrarily by robots or crawlers, which should not need to consider the side effects that a request should cause. See safe methods below.


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