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Best Practices: HEAD Request Best Practices > ❌ Don't: Try to Create....
Best Practices: HEAD Request Best Practices ❌ Don't: Try to Create Dedicated HEAD Handlers Source evidence: /Sources/honojs hono/provenance.md Canonical cita...
Best Practices: HEAD Request Best Practices > ❌ Don't: Try to Create Dedicated HEAD Handlers
Source evidence: /Sources/honojs__hono/provenance.md Canonical citation: https://hono.dev/llms-full.txt#don-t-try-to-create-dedicated-head-handlers
Summary
## Content
```typescript
// BAD: This won't work as expected
app.head('/api/users', (c) => {
// This handler will NEVER be called
c.header('X-Custom', 'value')
return c.text('ignored')
})
// BAD: Using on() also won't work
app.on('HEAD', '/api/users', (c) => {
// Still converted to GET before route matching
})
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