Question

I know how to do a HEAD request with httplib, but I have to use mechanize for this site.

Essentially, what I need to do is grab a value from the header (filename) without actually downloading the file.

Any suggestions how I could accomplish this?

Answer 1

Mechanize itself only sends GETs and POSTs, but you can easily extend the Request class to send HEAD. Example:

import mechanize  class HeadRequest(mechanize.Request):     def get_method(self):         return 'HEAD'  request = HeadRequest('http://www.example.com/') response = mechanize.urlopen(request)  print response.info()