WIP: Support of HTTP-HEAD retrievals #98
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Tommytrg
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Feb 26, 2024
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| While HTTP-GET and HTTP-POST data retrievals may cover the majority of use cases, other potential applications rather need to retrieve metadata from allegedly existing resource contents on the Internet, instead of relyng on calls to REST/API endpoints. | ||
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| For instance, metadata like the existence, age, size, hash or the content type of some given URL, can be extracted by a single HTTP-HEAD retrieval, without actually forcing witnessing nodes to download the whole content that is being referred. |
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For me, this is the main point of allowing HTTP HEAD. We aren't unlocking a new feature but avoiding witnesses downloading unnecessary data. I'd emphasize that in the first paragraph of "Motivation and rationale".
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