Making HTTP HEAD request with urllib2 from Python 2

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This works just fine:

import urllib2
request = urllib2.Request('http://localhost:8080')
request.get_method = lambda : 'HEAD'

response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
print response.info()

Tested with quick and dirty HTTPd hacked in python:

Server: BaseHTTP/0.3 Python/2.6.6
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:52:33 GMT
Content-type: text/html
X-REQUEST_METHOD: HEAD

I’ve added a custom header field X-REQUEST_METHOD to show it works 🙂

Here is HTTPd log:

Sun Dec 12 12:52:28 2010 Server Starts - localhost:8080
localhost.localdomain - - [12/Dec/2010 12:52:33] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 200 -

Edit: there is also httplib2

import httplib2
h = httplib2.Http()
resp = h.request("http://www.google.com", 'HEAD')

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