
S4 E1 Web Development with Malcolm Sparks
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The Role of Head in HTTP Servers
Head is really doing a get, but without asking for the get body. So it's almost a way of getting the metadata of a resource which are contained in the headers. It means that the server doesn't have to regenerate the whole body in order to serve as a head. When we build those servers that should respond to those HTTP methods, I get both put lead and led.
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