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I'm trying to use request module to get HTTP status code. But sometimes it works wrong. For example: 

var request = require('request');
var requestSettings = {
    method: 'HEAD',
    url: 'http://stackoverflow.com/help'
};
request(requestSettings, function(error, response, body) {
    console.log(response.statusCode);
});

This code returns 404 (not 200 as expected).
Why might this happen?
Thanks.

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  • Doesn't seem to be specific to node. When curl http://stackoverflow.com/help -I also returns 404 while curl http://stackoverflow.com/help -i shows 200. Guess SO dosen't like HEAD requests. Commented Jun 28, 2013 at 7:37

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You're doing everything fine. stackoverflow didn't implement HEAD

telnet HEAD request

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