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Best Practices: HEAD Request Best Practices > ✅ Do: Use GET Routes fo...
Best Practices: HEAD Request Best Practices ✅ Do: Use GET Routes for HEAD Requests Source evidence: /Sources/honojs hono/provenance.md Canonical citation: ht...
Best Practices: HEAD Request Best Practices > ✅ Do: Use GET Routes for HEAD Requests
Source evidence: /Sources/honojs__hono/provenance.md Canonical citation: https://hono.dev/llms-full.txt#do-use-get-routes-for-head-requests
Summary
## Content
```typescript
// GOOD: This GET route automatically handles HEAD requests
app.get('/api/users', async (c) => {
const users = await getUsers()
c.header('X-Total-Count', users.length.toString())
return c.json(users)
})
// HEAD /api/users will return:
// - Same headers as GET (including X-Total-Count)
// - Status 200
// - No body (null)
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