What is the difference between HTTP (head) and HTTP (get)?
The difference is in the type of the request. The most used request for downloading the web page is HTTP command GET. It means that there is the page download request for the whole web page including the head and all data, the page. But the data itself is mostly useless for the monitoring, encumber the link and rise traffic. The condition is recognized from the returned head code, eventually if the server responds at all. That’s why for 99% of the HTTP server monitoring the request HEAD is enough and this is the method we prefer. Nevertheless it is true that some oddly set-up servers will not respond to the HEAD request at all. Therefore there is the option of monitoring using the GET request. This is the same with HTTPS. for more information see the HTTP specification..
