[COUCHDB-3] Does not seem to support HEAD

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.7.2
• Fix Version/s: 0.8
• Component/s: HTTP Interface
• Assignee: Christopher Lenz
• Reporter: Naomi Slater
• Created: 08/Mar/08 23:45
• Updated: 21/Feb/12 22:25
• Resolved: 15/Apr/08 20:08

Description

The HTTP verb HEAD is like GET except the body of the response is omitted.
I wanted to use HEAD to check whether a document exists without downloading
the whole thing, but it does not appear to be supported?I get an error
trace instead.

--Jan: Correct, this is not yet supported.

--cmlenz: See also 646C2A4C7B8E6B6A6FFA36171F78158C.

--Jan: sorry, reference deleted.