gistfile1.txt

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import httplib

host = sys.argv[1]
path = sys.argv[2]
auth_token = sys.argv[3]

conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(host)
headers = {'X-Auth-Token': auth_token}
conn.request('HEAD', path, None, headers)
resp = conn.getresponse()

print resp.status
print resp.getheaders()
print repr(resp.read())