From 6cc98e6fcd579c7a0eb4337a38f8c08c519e26b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Jaquith <mark@wordpress.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 16:34:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Route HEAD API requests through the GET callback method

fixes #34837
props danielbachhuber
Built from https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@35758


git-svn-id: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@35722 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
---
 wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php | 3 ++-
 wp-includes/version.php                       | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php b/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php
index 62f7343069..2c46fd8d58 100644
--- a/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php
+++ b/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php
@@ -780,7 +780,8 @@ class WP_REST_Server {
 				$callback  = $handler['callback'];
 				$response = null;
 
-				if ( empty( $handler['methods'][ $method ] ) ) {
+				$checked_method = 'HEAD' === $method ? 'GET' : $method;
+				if ( empty( $handler['methods'][ $checked_method ] ) ) {
 					continue;
 				}
 
diff --git a/wp-includes/version.php b/wp-includes/version.php
index fe2032da99..786cf0ffd6 100644
--- a/wp-includes/version.php
+++ b/wp-includes/version.php
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $wp_version
  */
-$wp_version = '4.4-RC1-35757';
+$wp_version = '4.4-RC1-35758';
 
 /**
  * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema.