verb-HEAD

The HEAD method asks for a response identical to that of a GET request,
but without the response body.

A simple HTTP client, with tools for making HTTP requests,
and mocking HTTP requests. The package is built on R6, and takes
inspiration from Ruby's 'faraday' gem (<https://rubygems.org/gems/faraday>).
The package name is a play on curl, the widely used command line tool
for HTTP, and this package is built on top of the R package 'curl', an
interface to 'libcurl' (<https://curl.se/libcurl/>).

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HTTP Client

verb-HEAD function

The HEAD method is identical to GET except that the
server MUST NOT send a message body in the response (i.e., the
response terminates at the end of the header section). The server
SHOULD send the same header fields in response to a HEAD request as
it would have sent if the request had been a GET, except that the
payload header fields MAY be omitted. This method can
be used for obtaining metadata about the selected representation
without transferring the representation data and is often used for
testing hypertext links for validity, accessibility, and recent
modification.

The HEAD method

HTTP verb info: HEAD — verb-HEAD

The HEAD method is identical to GET except that the
server MUST NOT send a message body in the response (i.e., the
response terminates at the end of the header section). The server
SHOULD send the same header fields in response to a HEAD request as
it would have sent if the request had been a GET, except that the
payload header fields MAY be omitted. This method can
be used for obtaining metadata about the selected representation
without transferring the representation data and is often used for
testing hypertext links for validity, accessibility, and recent
modification.

verb-HEAD: HTTP verb info: HEAD

Description

Arguments

The HEAD method

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Examples