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Best Practices: HEAD Request Best Practices > ✅ Do: Use Middleware fo...
Best Practices: HEAD Request Best Practices ✅ Do: Use Middleware for HEAD Specific Logic Source evidence: /Sources/honojs hono/provenance.md Canonical citati...
Best Practices: HEAD Request Best Practices > ✅ Do: Use Middleware for HEAD-Specific Logic
Source evidence: /Sources/honojs__hono/provenance.md Canonical citation: https://hono.dev/llms-full.txt#do-use-middleware-for-head-specific-logic
Summary
## Content
```typescript
// GOOD: Use middleware when HEAD needs different behavior
app.use('/api/resource', async (c, next) => {
await next()
// Add HEAD-specific headers after the handler
if (c.req.method === 'HEAD') {
c.header('X-HEAD-Processed', 'true')
// Don't compute expensive body content for HEAD
c.res = new Response(null, c.res)
}
})
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