Hi
I thought HEAD should behave as GET only in case of success
after reading the RFC I understand it's should be the same on any response
Thanks
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin@mdounin.ru> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 02:49:46PM +0300, Hagai Avrahami wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I am trying to configure Nginx to deny HTTP HEAD requests
> >
> > 1. By adding the following to configuration file
> >
> > if ($request_method !~ ^(GET)$) {
> > return 405;
> > }
> >
> > 2. Explicitly in the module
> >
> > if (!(r->method & (NGX_HTTP_GET))) {
> > return NGX_HTTP_NOT_ALLOWED;
> > }
> >
> > Nginx returns 405 status code but the response content length is not 0
> > it's counting the error page text but when coming to send the response it
> > ignores the body because it is HEAD request
> >
> > HTTP/1.1 405 Not Allowed
> > Server: nginx
> > Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 11:35:02 GMT
> > Content-Type: text/html
> > Content-Length: 161
> > Connection: keep-alive
> >
> > ***No-Body**
>
> And the question is? The behaviour you observe is correct as per
> HTTP protocol.
>
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