From: Michael Guterl <mguterl@...>
Date: 2008-09-30T22:27:30+09:00
Subject: Re: rest-client get header only

Hi Keith,

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Keith Langdon <keith@masite.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi, using the great rest-client from Adam Wiggins, but I can't seam to
> be able work out how to get just the HEAD of a URL.
> i.e. in curl I would : curl -I URL
>
> I'm getting the data just fine with:
> return_data = RestClient.get "URL"
>
> Is there a way of doing this, or should I go about it a different way?
>
Looking at the documentation at http://rest-client.heroku.com/rdoc/ it
does not appear that there is a RestClient#head method.  However,
looking at the internals you may be able to do:

uri = 'http://google.com'
headers = {}

RestClient::Request.execute(:method => :head,
  :url => url,
  :headers => headers)

> I'm using it to get the filename sent back from a send_data command in a
> rails app.
>
> Still very new to all this ruby/rails jive, but liking it so far!
>
Welcome aboard!

Michael Guterl