We recently came across a need for support for the HTTP "HEAD" request method in the httpd module (in order to support basic JNLP), so here's a small patch to add that to 1.1.3. Apologies for being against such an old release, but we're not yet in a position to upgrade to something newer. Hopefully it won't take much to make it apply to more recent versions.
Considering that there's very little overhead required for supporting HEAD in addition to GET, and the utility of HEAD to avoid pulling down files unnecessarily, this might be worthwhile to include.
The patch is small, but it might be possible to make it even smaller - I make no claim that this is the most optimal patch.
I've done basic testing against both plains files and CGI scripts, and it appears to Do The Right Thing.
Cheers,
/Johny
busybox_httpd_head.patch [^] (3,394 bytes) 10-15-07 19:46 
