diff --git a/es_cmsrep_apache.py b/es_cmsrep_apache.py
index 4c91d62e8b6e..0d4e4ed6c1ff 100755
--- a/es_cmsrep_apache.py
+++ b/es_cmsrep_apache.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def process (line, count):
   if (count%1000)==0: print "Processed entries",count
   if not send_payload("apache-cmsrep","access_log", id, dumps(payload), passwd_file="/data/es/es_secret"):
     return False
-  if payload["verb"] == "HEAD": return True
+  if payload["verb"] != "GET": return True
   items = payload["request"].replace("/cms/cpt/Software/download/","/cmssw/",1).split("/")
   if len(items)<6: return True
   if items[3] == "apt": items[3]="PRMS"