[Seaside-dev] HEAD HTTP method handling in RESTful handlers/filters

[Max Leske]

Great! I haven't checked, maybe the OPTIONS header needs to be added as well?



On 2 Aug 2021, at 21:46, Esteban Maringolo wrote:

> Hi Max,
>
> I don't use it, and don't see the real need other than to give the
> developer full control of the routes.
>
> I'll submit a PR to include HEAD as possible route methods in the
> WARouteBuilder. I'll use the chance to add support for PATCH as well
> :-)
>
> Regards!
>
> Esteban A. Maringolo
>
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 4:37 PM Max Leske <maxleske at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Esteban,
>>
>> I don't see why it shouldn't be possible to handle HEAD requests explicitly. I think it's a good idea to have the option (even though most people won't need and shouldn't use it).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Max
>>
>>
>> On 2 Aug 2021, at 21:33, Esteban Maringolo wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> As per the RFC the HEAD is identical to a GET but without the body,
>>> but given you might want to have full control of all requests coming
>>> to your REST handler, it might be the case you want to answer HEAD
>>> methods differently (e.g. to avoid serializing things and/or reading
>>> them from the DB).
>>>
>>> For some reason the HEAD HTTP method is not available as method in
>>> WARouteBuilder, so it is not possible to have a specific HEAD handling
>>> for a certain route.
>>>
>>> Does it make sense not having HEAD support as a possible method for a route?
>>> Having HEAD returning different headers to that of a common GET would
>>> make it not compliant?
>>>
>>> This might require not only implementing the configuration pragma in
>>> the WARouteBuilder, but also modifying the WAServerAdaptor to forward
>>> native HEAD requests to the handlers.
>>>
>>> Regards!
>>>
>>> Esteban A. Maringolo
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