I have an ASP.NET MVC site and ELMAH is showing me that my site is erroring when receiving an HTTP request with REQUEST_METHOD = HEAD.
How do I respond to these requests using ASP.NET MVC?
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Use the [AcceptVerbs( HttpVerbs.Head )] attribute to mark the method as responding to a HEAD request. You can add more potential methods by OR'ing the verbs together so it can respond to multiple request verbs. I suspect your method is already marked with the attribute as I think it should respond to any request verb if you don't have any restrictions. On a side note, I think it would be pretty rare to get a HEAD request, care to elaborate on why and how you're receiving it?
tvanfosson
2010-03-01 16:52:31
Thanks. My home controller's index method is the one being hit with the HEAD request. It's currently set up with an AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.GET). I guess I'll need to add an HttpVerbs.Head to that as well. As for why I'm receiving the request, I wish I knew more myself. All I know is that I periodically get an error e-mail from ELMAH saying "A public action method 'Index' could not be found on controller 'Web.Controllers.HomeController'". The details show that the REQUEST_METHOD is HEAD. I don't recognize the IP address the request comes from. Maybe a spider/crawler?
Kevin Pang
2010-03-01 17:35:46
I wouldn't add the verb unless **your code** is what is making the request. It may be that you want to respond to this request, but I would expect most spider/crawlers would be doing a full GET. FWIW, I don't see these when Google crawls my sites.
tvanfosson
2010-03-01 18:51:48
I get this from web spiders too. Its a pain in the ass.
Schotime
2010-04-24 07:31:57