On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Make a HEAD request. Here is one way of doing it, using urllib2.
>
> class HeadRequest(urllib2.Request):
> """ A request class which performs a HEAD request """
>
> def get_method(self):
> return 'HEAD'
>
> req = HeadRequest(url)
> f = urllib2.urlopen(req)
> headers = dict(f.headers)
> print headers.get('content-length',-1)'
Here is another way.
import httplib
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(host)
conn.request('HEAD', path)
print conn.getresponse().getheader('Content-Type')
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