Fix closes issue 1673007 urllib.request to support HEAD requests with a new method arg.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
index 6c57d72..945aa97 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
@@ -474,6 +474,16 @@
path also specifying the user/group names and not only their numeric
ids. (Contributed by Sandro Tosi in :issue:`12191`)
+urllib
+------
+
+The :class:`~urllib.request.Request` class, now accepts a *method* argument
+used by :meth:`~urllib.request.Request.get_method` to determine what HTTP method
+should be used. For example, this will send an ``'HEAD'`` request::
+
+ >>> urlopen(Request('http://www.python.org', method='HEAD'))
+
+(:issue:`1673007`)
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