head

ciecplib.head(url, **kwargs)

Send a HEAD request using ECP authentication.

Parameters:

url (str) – URL path for request.
endpoint (str, optional) – ECP endpoint name or URL for request.
username (str, optional) – the username with which to authenticate, will be prompted for if not given, and not using kerberos.
password (str, optional) – the password with which to authenticate, will be prompted for if not given, and not using kerberos.
kerberos (bool, optional) – use existing kerberos credential for login, default is to try, but fall back to username/password prompt.
cookiejar (http.cookiejar.CookieJar, optional) – a jar of cookies to add to the requests.Session.
kwargs – other keyword arguments are passed directly to requests.Session.head()

Returns:

response (http.client.HTTPResponse) – the response from the URL