# HEAD request to \[indexname\]/\_alias/\[aliasname\] seems to always return 200 OK
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/head-request-to-indexname--alias-aliasname-seems-to-always-return-200-ok/91183
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 28, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/head-request-to-indexname--alias-aliasname-seems-to-always-return-200-ok/91183 "2017-06-28T20:08:28Z")
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### Author:  [@chronolinq](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chronolinq)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/head-request-to-indexname--alias-aliasname-seems-to-always-return-200-ok/91183/1 "2017-06-28T20:08:29Z")
Elasticsearch version: 5.4.2
Kibana version: 5.4.2
[Elasticsearch.Net](http://Elasticsearch.Net) + NEST version 5.4.0
When making a head request to check for the existence of an alias in an index, it appears to always return 200 OK even if there are no alias that match the name. For example:
`GET _alias`
returns:
```
{
".kibana": {
"aliases": {}
},
"crelate": {
"aliases": {}
}
}
```
In the meantime,
`HEAD crelate/_alias/testfdfddf`
returns
`200 - OK`
If I were to try:
`HEAD _alias/testfdfddf`
this returns a more expected result:
`404 - Not Found`
These queries were performed in the Kibana Dev Tools Console, but I noticed the same results when making these calls using [Elasticsearch.Net](http://Elasticsearch.Net). Is this the intended behavior? Or is my syntax incorrect? The goal is to check for the existence of an alias in an index.
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### Author:  [@jasontedor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jasontedor)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2017, 10:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/head-request-to-indexname--alias-aliasname-seems-to-always-return-200-ok/91183/2 "2017-06-30T10:49:37Z")
See [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/25043](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/25043). It will be fixed in 5.5.0.
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### Author:  [@chronolinq](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chronolinq)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/head-request-to-indexname--alias-aliasname-seems-to-always-return-200-ok/91183/3 "2017-06-30T16:19:32Z")
Thanks @jasontedor for the response!
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### Author:  [@jasontedor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jasontedor)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2017, 4:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/head-request-to-indexname--alias-aliasname-seems-to-always-return-200-ok/91183/4 "2017-06-30T16:34:43Z")
You're welcome.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2017, 4:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/head-request-to-indexname--alias-aliasname-seems-to-always-return-200-ok/91183/5 "2017-07-28T16:34:52Z")
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