Curl: Re: Fw: HTTP HEAD request??

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From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 16:02:09 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Marc Richards wrote:

> > CURLOPT_NOBODY is the name of the option in libcurl.
>
> Does that actually do a HEAD or does it just do a GET and discard the body?
> I don't want to stress the server unneccesarily.

It uses HEAD, as you can easily verify by using VERBOSE or similar.

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 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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