# About XHEAD

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-xhead/9774>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 21, 2012, 6:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-xhead/9774 "2012-11-21T06:55:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![asoqa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@asoqa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asoqa)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 6:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-xhead/9774/1 "2012-11-21T06:55:28Z")

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I want to check for the existance of a document using HEAD, for example:  
curl -XHEAD '[http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/1](http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/1)'

but the command returns nothing, my es version is 0.19.11. why?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-xhead/9774/2 "2017-07-06T03:03:26Z")

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