Here’s a sample HTTP HEAD request that checks the existence of a directory named quarterly_rpts.
Request with curl command line
curl -k -iI -H "Authorization: HCP bXl1c2Vy:3f3c6784e97531774380db177774ac8d"
"https://finance.europe.hcp.example.com/rest/quarterly_rpts"
Request in Python using PycURL
import pycurl
import StringIO
cin = StringIO.StringIO()
curl = pycurl.Curl()
curl.setopt(pycurl.HTTPHEADER, ["Authorization: HCP
bXl1c2Vy:3f3c6784e97531774380db177774ac8d"])
curl.setopt(pycurl.URL, "https://finance.europe.hcp.example.com \
/rest/quarterly_rpts")
curl.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0)
curl.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0)
curl.setopt(pycurl.HEADER, 1)
curl.setopt(pycurl.NOBODY, 1)
curl.setopt(pycurl.WRITEFUNCTION, cin.write)
curl.perform()
print curl.getinfo(pycurl.RESPONSE_CODE)
print cin.getvalue()
curl.close()
Request headers
HEAD /rest/quarterly_rpts HTTP/1.1
Host: finance.europe.hcp.example.com
Authorization: HCP bXl1c2Vy:3f3c6784e97531774380db177774ac8d
Response headers
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-HCP-ServicedBySystem: hcp.example.com
X-HCP-Time: 1334829227
X-HCP-SoftwareVersion: 7.0.0.16
Content-Type: text/xm
X-HCP-ChangeTimeMilliseconds: 1326336965436
X-HCP-ChangeTimeString: 2012-01-11T09:56:05-0500
X-HCP-Type: directory
Content-Length: 0
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