RE: Satisfying IMS from HEAD or IMS would help where browser cac

> I need to reread your message to really get what you're saying there,
> but FYI Netscape servers do NOT include a LM header when the request is
> a head. This violates the spirit of the HTTP, but not the letter...
>

That's not true for all Netscape servers, but one could just fail
degraded anyway:

saracen:/$ telnet btsu4 80
Trying 192.168.80.21...
Connected to btsu4.bts.co.uk.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: Netscape-FastTrack/2.01
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 12:18:17 GMT
Accept-ranges: bytes
Last-modified: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 18:55:08 GMT
Content-length: 6609
Content-type: text/html

Connection closed by foreign host.
saracen:/$

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