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Best Practices: HEAD Request Best Practices > Performance Considerati...
Best Practices: HEAD Request Best Practices Performance Considerations Source evidence: /Sources/honojs hono/provenance.md Canonical citation: https://hono.d...
Best Practices: HEAD Request Best Practices > Performance Considerations
Source evidence: /Sources/honojs__hono/provenance.md Canonical citation: https://hono.dev/llms-full.txt#performance-considerations
Summary
- Avoid expensive operations in GET handlers if you expect many HEAD requests: Use middleware to detect HEAD and skip body generation - Cache headers work identically: HEAD responses respect the same caching rules as GET - **Midd...
Content
- Avoid expensive operations in GET handlers if you expect many HEAD requests: Use middleware to detect HEAD and skip body generation
- Cache headers work identically: HEAD responses respect the same caching rules as GET
- Middleware compatibility: Most middleware works with HEAD, but body-processing middleware (like compression) automatically skips HEAD requests
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