[Zope-dev] HEAD/GET

[Dieter Maurer]

Magnus Heino wrote at 2003-5-21 09:43 +0200:
 > Can anyone explain why this HEAD request fails, when the same GET 
 > request succeeds?
 > ... http://www.alvkarlebygk.com/index_html/document_view ....

A bug. Put it into the Collector:

  For "HEAD" requests, "ZPublisher.BaseRequest.BaseRequest.traverse"
  sets "no_acquire_flag=1". This prevents "document_view" from
  being acquired. As "index_html" does not have a
  "document_view" attribute, the request fails with a
  "NotFound" response.



Dieter