try HEAD before GET for endpoint discovery

willnorris / webmention

Go library and CLI for assisting in sending webmentions.

https://pkg.go.dev/willnorris.com/go/webmention

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try HEAD before GET for endpoint discovery #5

Closed willnorris closed 3 years ago

willnorris commented 10 years ago

when discovering the webmention endpoint for a URL, we should do a HEAD request first and check for a Link header. If that fails, then do a GET request and do a full check of the body as well.