HEAD

A client would use the HEAD verb when they would like to retrieve the headers for a resource without the body. The HEAD verb is typically used in place of a GET verb when a client only wants to check if a resource exists or to read the metadata.

Request:

HEAD /v1/cats/12343 HTTP/1.1 
Content-Type: application/json 
Content-Length: 0 

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK 
Content-Type: application/json 
Last-Modified: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:37:23 GMT 
Content-Length: 45