Class: Net::HTTP::Head

Inherits:

Net::HTTPRequest

• Object
• Net::HTTPGenericRequest
• Net::HTTPRequest
• Net::HTTP::Head

Defined in:

lib/net/http/requests.rb

Overview

Class for representing HTTP method HEAD:

require 'net/http'
uri = URI('http://example.com')
hostname = uri.hostname # => "example.com"
req = Net::HTTP::Head.new(uri) # => #<Net::HTTP::Head HEAD>
res = Net::HTTP.start(hostname) do |http|
http.request(req)
end

See Request Headers.

Properties:

• Request body: optional.
• Response body: no.
• Safe: yes.
• Idempotent: yes.
• Cacheable: yes.

Related:

• Net::HTTP#head: sends HEAD request, returns response object.

Constant Summary

METHOD =

'HEAD'

REQUEST_HAS_BODY =

false

RESPONSE_HAS_BODY =

false

Method Summary

Methods inherited from Net::HTTPRequest

#initialize

Constructor Details

This class inherits a constructor from Net::HTTPRequest