Sending a HTTP HEAD using requests

Overview:

The head() method sends a http HEAD request to a resolved web server of a given domain name.
The head() method returns a response object containing the reply for the HEAD request.
If the response object is printed directly, the string representation of the object is printed in the format <Response [Status code]> e.g., <Response [200]>.
If a specific field from the response to the HEAD request is required, it can be obtained through the headers attribute of the request object.
Alternatively, the method request() can be invoked with a request type string as “HEAD”.

Example:

# Example Python program that sends a HTTP HEAD request
# to a host using the requests library
import requests

# Send a request to a HTTP port
response = requests.head("http://www.example.com")
print(response)

# Send a request to a HTTPS port
response = requests.head("https://example.com")
print(response)
print(type(response))
print(response.headers)
print(type(response.headers))

# The dictionary is a CaseInsensitiveDict
print(response.headers["Content-Type"])
print(response.headers["content-type"])

Output:

<Response [200]>
<Response [200]>
<class 'requests.models.Response'>
{'Accept-Ranges': 'bytes', 'Content-Type': 'text/html', 'ETag': '"bc2473a18e003bdb249eba5ce893033f:1760028122.592274"', 'Last-Modified': 'Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:42:02 GMT', 'Vary': 'Accept-Encoding', 'Content-Encoding': 'gzip', 'Cache-Control': 'max-age=86000', 'Date': 'Sat, 18 Oct 2025 17:33:42 GMT', 'Content-Length': '20', 'Connection': 'keep-alive', 'Alt-Svc': 'h3=":443"; ma=93600'}
<class 'requests.structures.CaseInsensitiveDict'>
text/html
text/html