HEAD Requests - Kequapp Documentation

By default, if a HEAD request has no matching route, your application will use a matching GET route in its place. Therefore it is important to keep in mind that HEAD requests follow the same flow as GET requests in your application.

This behavior can be disabled by setting the parameter autoHead to false in any branch or route.

Occasionally, you may need to differentiate between the two as it is generally understood that a HEAD request does not modify data. In this case, looking at the value of req.method can be useful.

createRoute({
    method: 'GET',
    url: '/api/users',
    actions: [({ req }) => {
        if (req.method === 'HEAD') {
            // head request
        }
    }],
});

In most cases, HEAD and GET requests should run the same code, so you have nothing to worry about. Detection of HEAD requests is already handled by the renderers that are built-in to the framework. Largely what will happen is no body will be sent to the client, which is what a HEAD request wanted.

# HEAD Requests