Systems and methods are provided to view the properties/attributes of a selected or specified object in the Object Exchange (OBEX) environment. A field, e.g., a Permissions field, is included in a GET request, where the field includes a header portion, e.g., a Permission header set to an arbitrary value.In responding to the GET request from an OBEX client, an OBEX server includes one or more permissions associated with an object specified in the GET request in a response, where the one or more associated permissions are included before actual body data. Therefore, the OBEX client may efficiently and directly query an object's attributes. Additionally, if the OBEX client is not interested in the body data of the object, the GET operation can be aborted upon receiving the desired Permission header.