title: How do you send a HEAD HTTP request in Python 2?
body: <p>What I'm trying to do here is get the headers of a given URL so I can determine the MIME type. I want to be able to see if <code>http://somedomain/foo/</code> will return an HTML document or a JPEG image for example. Thus, I need to figure out how to send a HEAD request so that I can read the MIME type without having to download the content. Does anyone know of an easy way of doing this?</p>