HTTP Head requests achieve what you are looking for;
On Sep 24, 2015 21:12, "Karl Wettin" <karl.wet...@kodapan.se> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I want to send a request that download headers but no actual content. Is
> that possible? What I'm trying to solve is to check if any URLs in a list
> of kazillion are broken in some way, more or less if I get a HTTP 200 and
> then hang up without wasting any bandwidth.
>
> Not sure wether or not this is in fact what HC already do if I don't
> access entity.getContent()?
>
> Thanks,
>
>                 karl
>
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