How to deal with IEs HEAD request on content type?

Hi,

I have entites which contain a media stream. I want to include this content in a html object container.

This works fine in Chrome and Firefox. The only problem is IE. The problem is here that IE performs a

HEAD request to determine the contetn type of the inclusion. (Described here http://www.sitepoint.com/ie-contype-request/)

But the OData Netweaver Gateway does not support HEAD requests so this leads to 405- method not allowed errror

and IE is not able to show the content.

Has someone implement something similar? Any experiences?

Is it possible to configere the gateway in a way that the head request is redirected to the implementation of the get request?

Thans in advance.