The http spec says about the HEAD request:
The HEAD method is identical to GET except that the server MUST NOT return a message-body in t
To me it looks like the HTTP 1.1 RFC is pretty specific:
The Content-Length entity-header field indicates the size of the entity-body, in decimal number of OCTETs, sent to the recipient or, in the case of the HEAD method, the size of the entity-body that would have been sent had the request been a GET.