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by mbrumlow 3035 days ago
You can still do all that with HEAD, the only difference is you don't return a message body, thus saving 1 byte plus a few in the actual header you would not need any more.

For example; you would do a head request and node.js and php would still need to be configured to handled the HEAD request but instead of its handler returning "1" it would simply return.