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HTTP Methods in odata

ramesh_punder — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 06:31:58 GMT

What is head method and When we go for head operation ?.

Re: HTTP Methods in odata

Sandra_Rossi — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 06:57:12 GMT

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Re: HTTP Methods in odata

evanireland — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 07:20:10 GMT

It's like a GET method that doesn't return the response payload (but it does return response headers).

For example if you want to check if an OData server is "up", you could send a GET request for the service document or the metadata document.

But a HEAD request to the same resource might be faster since it won't need to transmit the response payload to the client.

However... Some proxy servers or server frameworks will reject HEAD requests (for "security" reasons), so it's often best not to rely on them working.