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Revision 1086003 by teoli on July 19, 2016 at 2:54:00 AM PDT

Revision 1086183 by teoli on July 19, 2016 at 6:35:35 AM PDT

Title:

HEAD

Slug:

Web/HTTP/Methods/HEAD

Tags:

"HTTP" "Reference" "Request method"

Comment:

Rephrase second paragraph

Content:

	Revision 1086003			Revision 1086183
t	14	A response to a <code>HEAD</code> method should not have a	t	14	A response to a <code>HEAD</code> method should not have a
	>	body. If so, it must be ignored. {{glossary("Entity header", "Ent		>	body. If so, it must be ignored. Even so, {{glossary("Entity head
	>	ity headers")}} may be included or not in the response; if they a		>	er", "entity headers")}} describing the content of body, like {{H
	>	re, they relate to the body a {{HTTPMethod("GET")}} method would		>	TTPHeader("Content-Length")}} may be included in the response. Th
	>	have returned in its response, not to the body of the <code>HEAD<		>	ey don't relate to the body of the <code>HEAD</code> response, th
	>	/code> response.		>	at should be empty, but to the body a similar request with the {{
				>	HTTPMethod("GET")}} method would have returned in its response.