Add fallback to GET if HEAD doesn't work #9
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This works around a problems where servers don't support HEAD correctly, such as AWS S3 presigned URLs which incorporate the method into the URL signature, so you can't produce one that supports both GET and HEAD. This PR adds a fallback behaviour in response to
405 Method Not Implemented
or403 Forbidden
(S3's response) on HEAD to try a GET instead, but avoids reading the response body to prompt the server not to send any more data.I've also made a tweak to the unit tests in the process to generate data with the slightly faster (but less random)
random.getrandbits
and factor out sample data generation across both tests.cc @jamesba - would you mind reviewing this too?