gistfile1.txt

λ:/tmp ls -alh test.html 
-rw-rw-r-- 1 quinlan quinlan 116K Aug  2 23:17 test.html

λ:/tmp curl -d @test.html localhost:8080/oleg/test_page
!
curl: (18) transfer closed with 4 bytes remaining to read

λ:/tmp curl -X HEAD localhost:8080/oleg/test_page

λ:/tmp curl -v -X HEAD localhost:8080/oleg/test_page
* About to connect() to localhost port 8080 (#0)
*   Trying 127.0.0.1... connected
> HEAD /oleg/test_page HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.22.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.22.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.23 librtmp/2.3
> Host: localhost:8080
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: OlegDB/fresh_cuts_n_jams
< Content-Length: 0
< Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
< X-OlegDB-Rcrd-Cnt: 1
< 
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
* Closing connection #0

λ:/tmp time curl localhost:8080/oleg/test_page > /dev/null
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  114k  100  114k    0     0  20.8M      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 22.3M

real	0m0.011s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.004s

λ:/tmp