HTTP HEAD gives no response

[Michael Sweet]

miLosh wrote:
> hello,
> 
> i believ this is a bug and not a feature. my cups 1.1.23 is giving no "HTTP 200 ok" response when it gets a HEAD request, it simply closes the connection. this is bad because we are using a simple loadbalancer which checks via HEAD request for two webservers if they are alive.
> 
> here's my telnet output (i changed the hostname to "cupsserver":
> telnet cupsserver 631
> Trying 192.168.1.100...
> Connected to cupsserver.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> HEAD / HTTP/1.0
> 
> Connection to cupsserver closed by foreign host.
> 
> is this fixed in version 1.2 of cups or can i configure/build my cups to respond correctly to HEAD requests?

Please file a STR on this - I've been able to duplicate this but am
not sure what is going wrong (yet)...

     http://www.cups.org/str.php

Thanks!

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