How to get StatusCode without fetching Body/Content in the background

Question

I only need to know whether a specific call returns 200 but:

URLFetch[
    "http://exampledata.wolfram.com/10mb.dat"
  , "StatusCode"
] // AbsoluteTiming

{15.141, 200}

So it clearly downloads whole 10MB. Similar curl command returns almost instantaneously:

 curl -I http://exampledata.wolfram.com/10mb.dat

so it is clearly possible. How to do this so it will work on every V10+ installation?

Answer 1

URLFetch["http://exampledata.wolfram.com/10mb.dat", "StatusCode", 
  Method -> "HEAD"] // AbsoluteTiming

{0.383878, 200}