diff --git a/Doc/library/httplib.rst b/Doc/library/httplib.rst
index 3725933..8390087 100644
--- a/Doc/library/httplib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/httplib.rst
@@ -560,6 +560,22 @@
    >>> data2 = r2.read()
    >>> conn.close()
 
+Here is an example session that uses ``HEAD`` method. Note that ``HEAD`` method
+never returns any data. ::
+
+
+   >>> import httplib
+   >>> conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("www.python.org")
+   >>> conn.request("HEAD","/index.html")
+   >>> res = conn.getresponse()
+   >>> print res.status, res.reason
+   200 OK
+   >>> data = res.read()
+   >>> print len(data)
+   0
+   >>> data == ''
+   True
+
 Here is an example session that shows how to ``POST`` requests::
 
    >>> import httplib, urllib