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2011 Feb 11
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RCurl - HTTP request of header ONLY
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to send an HTTP request using RCurl that only requests the
response header, not the actual content.
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html says you can do this by using
the following option: curl --head http://www.something.com/
However, I can't figure out how to do this when using 'getURL()', for
example.
Here's what I tried:
FIRST TRY
txt <- getURL("http://www.something.com/", verbose=TRUE, he...