From: Stefan Schantl <stefan.schantl@ipfire.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 09:00:17 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Revert "ids-functions.pl: Use GET method to fetch Header data of a file"
X-Git-Tag: suricata-rc1~26
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c17a9778d62d964ac7d8e8da156ba0f08baf8748;p=people%2Fstevee%2Fipfire-2.x.git

Revert "ids-functions.pl: Use GET method to fetch Header data of a file"

Using the GET method will download the file twice and does not provide the
desired mechanism here.

This reverts commit 81592314ebe93ae942f28a1bc9037185f155ccda.
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diff --git a/config/cfgroot/ids-functions.pl b/config/cfgroot/ids-functions.pl
index afccf43263..98bf5806bd 100644
--- a/config/cfgroot/ids-functions.pl
+++ b/config/cfgroot/ids-functions.pl
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ sub downloadruleset {
 	}
 
 	# Pass the requrested url to the downloader.
-	my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
+	my $request = HTTP::Request->new(HEAD => $url);
 
 	# Accept the html header.
 	$request->header('Accept' => 'text/html');