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---- What isthe purpose of "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" or "GET / HTTP/1.1"?


Wizcrafts - 4:31 pm on Sep 1, 2003 (gmt 0)



The "/" is the resource indicator, or in this case root index of your site.
So if you have, say, "index.html" in the root directory of your web site, the request "GET / HTTP/1.1" is a request for that file. Make sense?

Thanks for the explanation Xiaoth. Now I understand why no filename follows those requests. This will help me when I analyze statistics and takes away the worry about nefarious activities.


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