head() — requests Function Reference

Architecture documentation for the head() function in sessions.py from the requests codebase.

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  b4dad953_9227_8b3f_4041_3f8f1f9f0b29["Session"]
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  71102afa_b9d8_769c_e8b8_1db9a083fa11["request()"]
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Source Code

src/requests/sessions.py lines 616–625

    def head(self, url, **kwargs):
        r"""Sends a HEAD request. Returns :class:`Response` object.

        :param url: URL for the new :class:`Request` object.
        :param \*\*kwargs: Optional arguments that ``request`` takes.
        :rtype: requests.Response
        """

        kwargs.setdefault("allow_redirects", False)
        return self.request("HEAD", url, **kwargs)