Add support for HEAD requests

This is a quick 'n dirty hack which makes cgit honor HEAD requests.

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cgit.c b/cgit.c
index 411e421..dc1c2e4 100644
--- a/cgit.c
+++ b/cgit.c
@@ -429,8 +429,9 @@ static int calc_ttl()
 
 int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 {
 	const char *cgit_config_env = getenv("CGIT_CONFIG");
+	const char *method = getenv("REQUEST_METHOD");
 	const char *path;
 	char *qry;
 	int err, ttl;
 
@@ -475,8 +476,10 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 	}
 
 	ttl = calc_ttl();
 	ctx.page.expires += ttl*60;
+	if (method && !strcmp(method, "HEAD"))
+		ctx.cfg.nocache = 1;
 	if (ctx.cfg.nocache)
 		ctx.cfg.cache_size = 0;
 	err = cache_process(ctx.cfg.cache_size, ctx.cfg.cache_root,
 			    ctx.qry.raw, ttl, process_request, &ctx);
diff --git a/ui-shared.c b/ui-shared.c
index 86a7d29..0dafc83 100644
--- a/ui-shared.c
+++ b/ui-shared.c
@@ -455,8 +455,10 @@ void cgit_print_age(time_t t, time_t max_relative, char *format)
 }
 
 void cgit_print_http_headers(struct cgit_context *ctx)
 {
+	const char *method = getenv("REQUEST_METHOD");
+
 	if (ctx->page.mimetype && ctx->page.charset)
 		htmlf("Content-Type: %s; charset=%s\n", ctx->page.mimetype,
 		      ctx->page.charset);
 	else if (ctx->page.mimetype)
@@ -470,8 +472,10 @@ void cgit_print_http_headers(struct cgit_context *ctx)
 	htmlf("Expires: %s\n", http_date(ctx->page.expires));
 	if (ctx->page.etag)
 		htmlf("ETag: \"%s\"\n", ctx->page.etag);
 	html("\n");
+	if (method && !strcmp(method, "HEAD"))
+		exit(0);
 }
 
 void cgit_print_docstart(struct cgit_context *ctx)
 {