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    Commands: Documents: How to get document metadata only?

    Head is used to retrieve document metadata from a database.

    Syntax

    curl \ 
	http://{serverName}/databases/{databaseName}/docs/{key} \
	-X HEAD

    Request

    Query parameter Required Description
    key Yes key of a document to get metadata for

    Response

    Status code Description
    200 OK
    Header Description
    anyHeader Metadata of document is returned as response headers

    Example I

    Gets metadata of employees/1.

    curl -X HEAD "http://localhost:8080/databases/NorthWind/docs/employees/1" 
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< ETag: "01000000-0000-0001-0000-00000000006B"
< Raven-Entity-Name: Employees
< Raven-Clr-Type: Orders.Employee, Northwind
< Non-Authoritative-Information: False
< __document_id: employees/1
< Raven-Last-Modified: 2014-11-06T12:47:28.9789141Z

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