Check for document existence using HEAD

ISSOtm · ISSOtm · commit 39b5aef0b833 · 2026-03-04T21:50:43.000-05:00
This should reduce network traffic of `hiser import`,
since we only care for that method's status.
diff --git a/client/document.go b/client/document.go
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ func (c *Client) AddPage(u, title, text string) error {
 }
 
 func (c *Client) DocumentExists(u string) (bool, error) {
-	req, err := c.newRequest("GET", "/api/document?url="+url.QueryEscape(u), nil)
+	req, err := c.newRequest("HEAD", "/api/document?url="+url.QueryEscape(u), nil)
 	if err != nil {
 		return false, err
 	}

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ func (c *Client) AddPage(u, title, text string) error {`
`44`	`44`	`}`
`45`	`45`
`46`	`46`	`func (c *Client) DocumentExists(u string) (bool, error) {`
`47`		`- req, err := c.newRequest("GET", "/api/document?url="+url.QueryEscape(u), nil)`
	`47`	`+ req, err := c.newRequest("HEAD", "/api/document?url="+url.QueryEscape(u), nil)`
`48`	`48`	`if err != nil {`
`49`	`49`	`return false, err`
`50`	`50`	`}`