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Best Practices: HEAD Request Best Practices > Understanding Hono's HE...
Best Practices: HEAD Request Best Practices Understanding Hono's HEAD Handling Source evidence: /Sources/honojs hono/provenance.md Canonical citation: https:...
Best Practices: HEAD Request Best Practices > Understanding Hono's HEAD Handling
Source evidence: /Sources/honojs__hono/provenance.md Canonical citation: https://hono.dev/llms-full.txt#understanding-hono-s-head-handling
Summary
Hono automatically handles HEAD requests by converting them to GET requests and stripping the response body. This behavior is built into the framework's dispatch layer and happens before route matching occurs.
Content
Hono automatically handles HEAD requests by converting them to GET requests and stripping the response body. This behavior is built into the framework's dispatch layer and happens before route matching occurs.
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