Issue
In a configuration I am using, a minio server hosting files, accepts only GET requests and does not accepts HEAD requests. I need the header information to check for file-type to avoid fetching the entire file.
I would do it usually with requests.head(url) however as I mentioned earlier only the GET method is allowed.
In curl it is possible to do the following:
curl -I -X GET http://domain.dom/path/
which curls the header of the url but overrides the used method with the GET HTTP method.
Is there something equivalent for the Python3 requests package?
Solution
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a clean way to do this. If the server accepts Range header, you could try requesting the bytes from 0 to 0, which nets you access to the header data but not the body. For example
import requests
url = "http://stackoverflow.com"
headers = {"Range": "bytes=0-0"}
res = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(res.headers)
As said, this still depends on the server implementation. For reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Range
Answered By - LTJ Answer Checked By - Mildred Charles (WPSolving Admin)
