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MSZ
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Mar 29, 2018

User Agent: Linux and Request Method: HEAD

HEAD /URI-TESTING HTTP/1.1 Host: applicationtesting.abc.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20150101 Firefox/47.0 (Chrome) Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,applicati...
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Apr 04, 2018

Let me complete the question now: User Agent: Linux and Request Method: HEAD is generating the "illegal http status in response" 501 code is generating.

 

By the HEAD method is already allowed ACT as a GET method under Headers -- HTTP METHODS.

 

Hope it clarifies the situation now.