package approx
tag 524984 confirmed
thanks

> I've just discovered that approx does not gracefully handle HEAD
> requests, as used by d-i (via the wget --spider command).  This
> makes it rather tricky to use an approx cache to back d-i
> development.

You're right, it only supports GETs currently.

It seems to me that if approx gets a HEAD for something not in the
cache, it will have to download it from the remote repository just so
it can report that it exists (or confirm that it doesn't).  Is that
the desired behavior?

-- 
Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u



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