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Have I slept through a few years of HEAD requests littering my logfiles? They look like:
198.139.155.32 - - [17/Aug/2001:05:16:17 -0500] "HEAD /sports/news.shtml HTTP/1.1" 200 0
Also had BUNCHES of:
63.166.100.25 - - [13/Aug/2001:22:46:53 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 27416
(which looks like the prerequisite of a half-hearted hack, from what I've read)
Am I being paranoid? Dim? I can see the image spider thing, but this just looks different than what I'm used to seeing.
Idiotgirl
* they take less bandwidth than a GET request
* it's an easy way to check the last modified date of a file if you need to keep something up to date
* many times used to "pre-spider" a site to make sure that the page you submitted exists before it's scheduled for retrieval.