sebastien/watchdog — pull request #6 by brunobord (2011-10-24 19:19:57+00:00)
Title: added "HEAD" method to test HTTP services.

I've added a way to perform a "HEAD" query to test if a service is available. The main reason is that GET or POST may return large streams, and the only thing we'd like to test is the availability, not the content of the response.
HEAD requests can save bits of bandwidth...