Perform a HEAD HTTP Request for a Remote URL — remote

Sends a HEAD request to the specified URL and retrieves the response headers.

This function is useful for checking the existence of a resource or retrieving metadata without downloading the entire content.

Usage

remote_head(url)

Arguments

url: Character string specifying the URL to send the HEAD request to.

Value

A list containing:

request: The httr2::request()
response: The httr2::response()
headers: The httr2::resp_headers() from the response

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
url <- "https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2024/shp/cb_2024_us_state_20m.zip"
head_info <- remote_head(url)
print(head_info$headers)
} # }