Fixed #15906 - Documented HEAD method in CBVs; thanks zsiciarz for the patch.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ref/class-based-views/base.txt b/docs/ref/class-based-views/base.txt
index 954aee7c3d..cc9aa852f1 100644
--- a/docs/ref/class-based-views/base.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/class-based-views/base.txt
@@ -71,6 +71,11 @@ View
         delegated to :meth:`~View.get()`, a ``POST`` to :meth:`~View.post()`,
         and so on.
 
+        By default, a ``HEAD`` request will be delegated to :meth:`~View.get()`.
+        If you need to handle ``HEAD`` requests in a different way than ``GET``,
+        you can override the :meth:`~View.head()` method. See
+        :ref:`supporting-other-http-methods` for an example.
+
         The default implementation also sets ``request``, ``args`` and
         ``kwargs`` as instance variables, so any method on the view can know
         the full details of the request that was made to invoke the view.