http-head* ( url -- response data )
HTTP client ยป HEAD requests with the HTTP client

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Vocabulary
http.client

Inputs
urlan url or a string


Outputs
responsea response
dataa sequence


Word description
Same as http-get* except that the server is not supposed to return a message-body in the response, as per RFC2616. However in practise, most web servers respond to GET and HEAD method calls with identical responses.

See also
http-head

Definition