---
title: "HeadObject"
slug: "storage-objectstorage-headobject"
tags: ["Object Storage"]
updated: 2026-09-17T10:12:27Z
published: 2026-09-17T10:12:27Z
canonical: "api.ncloud-docs.com/storage-objectstorage-headobject"
---

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# HeadObject

Available in Classic and VPC

View object headers based on the specified headers. No request query parameter or request body is used in the operation.

## Requests

The following describes the request format for the endpoint. The request format is as follows.

| Method | URI |
| --- | --- |
| HEAD | /{bucket-name}/{object-name} |

### Request syntax

The request syntax is as follows.

```
HEAD https://{endpoint}/{bucket-name}/{object-name} # path style
HEAD https://{bucket-name}.{endpoint}/{object-name} # virtual host style
```

### Request headers

The following describes the HeadObject header. For headers common to all Object Storage APIs, see [Object Storage common request headers](/docs/en/storage-objectstorage#%EA%B3%B5%ED%86%B5%EC%9A%94%EC%B2%AD%ED%97%A4%EB%8D%94).

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `range` | String | Optional | Return the size of the object in bytes within a specified range |
| `if-match` | String | Optional | Return the object if the specified ETag string matches the source object |
| `if-none-match` | String | Optional | Return the object if the specified ETag string is different from the source object |
| `if-unmodified-since` | String | Optional | Return the object if the source object hasn't been edited since the specified date - Must be in a valid date format - <Example> Wed, 30 Nov 2016 20:21:38 GMT |
| `if-modified-since` | String | Optional | Return the object if the source object was edited after the specified date - Must be in a valid date format - <Example> Wed, 30 Nov 2016 20:21:38 GMT |

### Request path parameters

The following describes the parameters.

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `bucket-name` | String | Required | Name of the bucket to view object headers in |
| `object-name` | String | Required | Name of the object whose headers you want to view |

### Request example

The following is a sample request.

```
HEAD /example-bucket/soldier-bee HTTP/1.1
Authorization: {authorization-string}
x-amz-date: 20160825T183244Z
Host: kr.object.ncloudstorage.com
```

## Responses

The following describes the response format.

### Response headers

For response headers common to all Object Storage APIs, see [Object Storage common response headers](/docs/en/storage-objectstorage#%EA%B3%B5%ED%86%B5%EC%9D%91%EB%8B%B5%ED%97%A4%EB%8D%94).

### Response status codes

For response status codes common to all Object Storage APIs, see [Object Storage response status codes](/docs/en/storage-objectstorage#%EC%98%A4%EB%A5%98%EC%BD%94%EB%93%9C).

### Response example

The following is a sample response.

```
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 18:32:44 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
x-amz-request-id: da214d69-1999-4461-a130-81ba33c484a6
ETag: "37d4c94839ee181a2224d6242176c4b5"
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Last-Modified: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 17:49:06 GMT
Content-Length: 11
```