How do you send a HEAD HTTP request in Python 2?

Question

What I\'m trying to do here is get the headers of a given URL so I can determine the MIME type. I want to be able to see if http://somedomain/foo/ will return a

Answer 1

Obligatory Requests way:

import requests

resp = requests.head("http://www.google.com")
print resp.status_code, resp.text, resp.headers