I\'m trying to parse the result of a HEAD request done using the Python Requests library, but can\'t seem to access the response content.
According to the docs, I sh
A HEAD doesn't have any content! Try response.headers
- that's probably where the action is. An HTTP HEAD request doesn't get the <head>
element of the HTML response you would get from a GET request. I think that's your mistake.
By definition, the responses to HEAD requests do not contain a message-body.
Send a GET request if you want to, well, get a response body. Send a HEAD request iff you are only interested in the response status code and headers.
HTTP transfers arbitrary content; the HTTP term header is completely unrelated to an HTML <head>
. However, HTTP can be advised to download only a part of the document. If you know the length of the HTML <head>
code (or an upper boundary therefor), you can include an HTTP Range header in your request that advises the remote server to only return a certain number of bytes. If the remote server supports HTTP ranges, it will then serve the reduced answer.
HEAD responses have no body. They only return HTTP headers, the same you would get using a GET request.