Perform an HTTP HEAD on an URL. Returns a Net::HTTPResponse object to access the status code and headers.

get_head.rb

class GetHead

  # Returns a Net::HTTPResponse.  Get the status code (as string):
  #     resp = with_http "http://imaiku.me/"
  #     code = resp.code        # => "301"
  #     resp.each {|k,v| puts k + "\t" + v}
  def with_http url
    uri = URI.parse url
    http = Net::HTTP.start uri.host, uri.port
    resp = http.head uri.path
  end

end