commit 01852838f31b612cd1ad84b87076ff25b9ff9d00
author Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> Thu Jun 25 02:40:17 1998 +0000
committer Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> Thu Jun 25 02:40:17 1998 +0000
tree fdf6e8b10b9aba557964803feb65077ba620c6eb
parent 2349015a878adc203613257fa9578dbd921ec573

Treat "HEAD" same as "GET", so that CGI scripts won't fail.

Lib/cgi.py

diff --git a/Lib/cgi.py b/Lib/cgi.py
index d45ed26..3a4e235 100755
--- a/Lib/cgi.py
+++ b/Lib/cgi.py
@@ -790,7 +790,7 @@
         self.strict_parsing = strict_parsing
         if environ.has_key('REQUEST_METHOD'):
             method = string.upper(environ['REQUEST_METHOD'])
-        if method == 'GET':
+        if method == 'GET' or method == 'HEAD':
             if environ.has_key('QUERY_STRING'):
                 qs = environ['QUERY_STRING']
             elif sys.argv[1:]: