[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #14348: If it's a HEAD request, stop after the head!

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#14348: If it's a HEAD request, stop after the head!
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 Reporter:  mitchoyoshitaka  |       Owner:                 
     Type:  defect (bug)     |      Status:  new            
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Performance      |     Version:  3.0            
 Severity:  normal           |    Keywords:  has-patch      
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Changes (by mitchoyoshitaka):

 * cc: mitchoyoshitaka (added)


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:4 Denis-de-Bernardy]:
 > I can easily picture a plugin overriding headers after an output buffer
 gets started or something similar. The patch exits too early.

 I updated the patch to include a boolean filter, exit_on_http_head, so
 that plugins can turn this mechanism off if there is a problem.

 If I were a betting man, I would bet that, out of the plugins which output
 a HTTP header, the subset which particularly care about the integrity of
 that header when it's a HEAD request, not just when it's a GET or POST, is
 very small.

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