python中head,如何在Python 2中发送HEAD HTTP请求？

What I'm trying to do here is get the headers of a given URL so I can determine the MIME type. I want to be able to see if http://somedomain/foo/ will return an HTML document or a JPEG image for example. Thus, I need to figure out how to send a HEAD request so that I can read the MIME type without having to download the content. Does anyone know of an easy way of doing this?

解决方案

edit: This answer works, but nowadays you should just use the requests library as mentioned by other answers below.

>>> import httplib

>>> conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("www.google.com")

>>> conn.request("HEAD", "/index.html")

>>> res = conn.getresponse()

>>> print res.status, res.reason

200 OK

>>> print res.getheaders()

[('content-length', '0'), ('expires', '-1'), ('server', 'gws'), ('cache-control', 'private, max-age=0'), ('date', 'Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:43:36 GMT'), ('content-type', 'text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1')]

There's also a getheader(name) to get a specific header.