How does the HEAD/GET requests work ?

[Michael Alan Dorman]

On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, Robert H. Terry wrote:
> My question, is how does this work ?  Can an Agent/Browser search/browse 
> the Head of docuemnts only ?  Are there benefits real/intended in doing 
> same ?  Does anyone have any other thoughts on the whole subject ?

As with so many things in the WWW, it works only if software supports 
it.  Use of those META tags is purely de facto.

Mike.
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