python head_使用Python请求获取HEAD内容

I'm trying to parse the result of a HEAD request done using the Python Requests library, but can't seem to access the response content.

According to the docs, I should be able to access the content from requests.Response.text. This works fine for me on GET requests, but returns None on HEAD requests.

GET request (works)

import requests

response = requests.get(url)

content = response.text

content = ...

HEAD request (no content)

import requests

response = requests.head(url)

content = response.text

content = None

EDIT

OK I've quickly realized form the answers that the HEAD request is not supposed to return content- only headers. But does that mean that, to access things found IN the

tag of a page, like and tags, that one must GET the whole document?

解决方案

By definition, the responses to HEAD requests do not contain a message-body.

Send a GET request if you want to, well, get a response body. Send a HEAD request iff you are only interested in the response status code and headers.

HTTP transfers arbitrary content; the HTTP term header is completely unrelated to an HTML

. However, HTTP can be advised to download only a part of the document. If you know the length of the HTML code (or an upper boundary therefor), you can include an HTTP Range header in your request that advises the remote server to only return a certain number of bytes. If the remote server supports HTTP ranges, it will then serve the reduced answer.