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n-nishizawa
n-nishizawa

Reputation: 55

sinatra HEAD method

I'd like to return json(string) for http HEAD method on sinatra.
But It seems that sinatra doesn't return any response body for HEAD requests.

I tried this code.

require 'sinatra'

head "/" do
   "HEAD"
end

And I did curl -X HEAD 'http://localhost:4567/'. But the command doesn't return for a while and finally throws a error below.

$ curl -X HEAD 'http://localhost:4567/'
curl: (18) transfer closed with 5 bytes remaining to read

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1081

Answers (1)

bigtunacan
bigtunacan

Reputation: 4986

That is a perfectly valid Sinatra head route. The problem is with your curl statement.

curl -X HEAD 'http://localhost:4567/'

-X HEAD is not what you want; it will not print headers and will expect some specification of expected bytes transmission stated in Content-Length.

Instead you want the following.

curl -I http://localhost:4567/

Upvotes: 2

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