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Support HEAD requests #149

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@lidel

Not sure if this is the right repository but trustless responses do not support HEAD method:

$ curl -v "https://dag.w3s.link/ipfs/QmbWqxBEKC3P8tqsKc98xmWNzrzDtRLMiMPL8wBuTGsMnR?format=raw" -X HEAD
< HTTP/2 405

Related spec at: https://specs.ipfs.tech/http-gateways/trustless-gateway/#head-ipfs-cid-path-params

This is a bug: without HEAD client is unable to check if gateway has content, and may get it multiple times from different sources, wasting bandwidth.

Any chance to fix this?

This impacts @hsanjuan's HTTP retrieval work in Boxo/Kubo/Rainbow.

If it is technically challenging to generate all HTTP headers, just implement basic "has" check and return status code (200 or 404) – this will be enough to unblock us.

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