HTTP HEAD and docxmlrpcserver

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Mon, 11 May 2009 04:23:29 -0300, Christopher Mahan  
<chris.mahan at gmail.com> escribió:

> I have a docxmlrpcserver install (kissws.com) that's returning HTTP code  
> 501
> when the client makes a HEAD request.
>
> Any idea as to whether that's by design?

Yes. The XMLRPC spec defines only the POST request; DocXMLRPCServer  
extends the definition so a GET request is interpreted as a documentation  
query. Any other method remains undefined and generates a "501 Unsupported  
method (xxx)" response.

If you do need HEAD, extend DocXMLRPCRequestHandler to define a do_HEAD  
method (same as do_GET but without actually sending the response entity).

-- 
Gabriel Genellina