id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
15668	Generic views should provide a HEAD implementation	Jamie Matthews	nobody	"Currently, HEAD requests are responded to with `405 METHOD NOT ALLOWED` and an `Allow: get` header. 

{{{
$ curl -I localhost:8000
HTTP/1.0 405 METHOD NOT ALLOWED
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:04:05 GMT
Server: WSGIServer/0.1 Python/2.6.1
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Allow: get
}}}

Generic views (or perhaps even the base View class?) should provide a `head()` implementation that should probably just call the `get` method (if present) and then throw away the content."	New feature	closed	Generic views	1.3	Normal	fixed		Tom Christie	Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0