spring WARNING: Request method 'HEAD' not supported

Question

I receive warning message per second after successful deployment on tomcat 7:

org.springframework.web.servlet.PageNotFound handleHttpRequestMethodNotSupported WARNING: Request method 'HEAD' not supported

but application works. How to avoid this annoying message?

Answer 1

You would need to add the following @RequestMapping(method = {RequestMethod.GET, RequestMethod.HEAD}) on your methods which are failing. This will allow them to handle HEAD requests and should make the warning go away.

Answer 2

This is a bug of IntelliJ IDEA

>> see issue

it will be fix in next release and until that there is a patch was created by them Download link

Close idea and Replace bellow file with downloaded one(before do that keep backup of the original file)

<idea home>/plugins/JavaEE/lib/javaee-impl.jar