From: William A. Rowe Jr <wrowe@apache.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 16:01:21 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Restore 'HEAD' method as a special case of GET with the common ID
X-Git-Tag: 2.5.0-alpha~1394
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=26e6eaab3e0190b4ea0a3b44dfbd9efd643974fd;p=apache

Restore 'HEAD' method as a special case of GET with the common ID

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1753257 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---

diff --git a/modules/http/http_protocol.c b/modules/http/http_protocol.c
index 6a1ea1855a..17a6e27c24 100644
--- a/modules/http/http_protocol.c
+++ b/modules/http/http_protocol.c
@@ -688,8 +688,11 @@ AP_DECLARE(void) ap_method_registry_init(apr_pool_t *p)
                               apr_pool_cleanup_null);
 
     /* put all the standard methods into the registry hash to ease the
-       mapping operations between name and number */
+     * mapping operations between name and number
+     * HEAD is a special-instance of the GET method and shares the same ID
+     */
     register_one_method(p, "GET", M_GET);
+    register_one_method(p, "HEAD", M_GET);
     register_one_method(p, "PUT", M_PUT);
     register_one_method(p, "POST", M_POST);
     register_one_method(p, "DELETE", M_DELETE);