Do a HEAD request on a URL and print status and headers

head.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import httplib
import sys
from urlparse import urlparse


def head(url):
    r = urlparse(url)
    conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(r.netloc)
    pathquery = r.path
    if r.query:
        pathquery = pathquery + '?' + r.query
    conn.request("HEAD", pathquery)
    res = conn.getresponse()
    print res.status, res.reason
    for k, v in res.getheaders():
        print k+': '+v

if __name__ == "__main__":
    if len(sys.argv) == 2:
        head(sys.argv[1])