Re: {bb} Why HEAD??

[Sean MacGuire <sean@MacLawran.CA>]

Jules Damji wrote:
> 
> I noticed the bbnet.c when fetch URL is doing a HEAD, as opposed 
> to GET.

Correct.

> Was there a reason for this?  Why not fetch an actual document, 
> which perhaps gives latency.

HEAD is lighter and faster.  Also since the results of a bbnet
test are sent via bbd as data for the BBDISPLAY, it's more 
appropriate (HTML output really screws up the HTML display :)
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