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

For completeness to have a Python3 answer equivalent to the accepted answer using httplib.

It is basically the same code just that the library isn't called httplib anymore but http.client

from http.client import HTTPConnection

conn = HTTPConnection('www.google.com')
conn.request('HEAD', '/index.html')
res = conn.getresponse()

print(res.status, res.reason)