Class HeadMethod

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    HttpMethod

    public class HeadMethod
    extends HttpMethodBase
    Implements the HTTP HEAD method.

    The HTTP HEAD method is defined in section 9.4 of RFC2616:

    The HEAD method is identical to GET except that the server MUST NOT return a message-body in the response. The metainformation contained in the HTTP headers in response to a HEAD request SHOULD be identical to the information sent in response to a GET request. This method can be used for obtaining metainformation about the entity implied by the request without transferring the entity-body itself. This method is often used for testing hypertext links for validity, accessibility, and recent modification.

    Since:
    1.0
    Version:
    $Revision: 480424 $
    Author:
    Remy Maucherat, Mike Bowler, Jeff Dever, oleg Kalnichevski