class Gem::Net::HTTP::Head

Class for representing HTTP method HEAD:

require 'rubygems/vendor/net-http/lib/net/http'
uri = Gem::URI('http://example.com')
hostname = uri.hostname # => "example.com"
req = Gem::Net::HTTP::Head.new(uri) # => #<Gem::Net::HTTP::Head HEAD>
res = Gem::Net::HTTP.start(hostname) do |http|
  http.request(req)
end

See Request Headers.

Properties:

• Request body: optional.

• Response body: no.

• Safe: yes.

• Idempotent: yes.

• Cacheable: yes.

Related:

• Gem::Net::HTTP#head: sends HEAD request, returns response object.