In my attempt to learn python in a weekend, I've fallen foul at line 10 of my second scripting attempt. Basically I'm writing a simple spider, but currently I'm unable to find any documentation on making HEAD requests using the urllib2 library to test whether a file exists on a remote webserver.
I've checked the docs on urllib2 from docs.python.org, and unless I'm missing something there doesn't seem to be a way to do *any* request other than a GET and POST. Surely this can't be correct? If so, we're all going to have a hell of a time creating RESTful web apps. Any help on the matter would be greatly appreciated. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
