From: Mark Thomas <mark@...>
Date: 2008-09-30T23:44:10+09:00
Subject: Re: rest-client get header only

On Sep 30, 7:45 am, Keith Langdon <ke...@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?

The ruby standard library has net/http, with which you can do:

  require 'net/http'

  conn = Net::HTTP.start('www.whatever.com')
  conn.head('/').each_header do |k,v|
    puts "#{k} = #{v}"
  end


-- Mark.