Add support for HEAD requests to HttpClientConnection

Change-Id: I501f37e06b686a3a0bb5fd857dd72e424da91d3e
Signed-off-by: Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@sap.com>
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.http.apache/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/http/apache/HttpClientConnection.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.http.apache/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/http/apache/HttpClientConnection.java
index de81bf8..a0eeef8 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.http.apache/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/http/apache/HttpClientConnection.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.http.apache/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/http/apache/HttpClientConnection.java
@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.jgit.transport.http.apache;
 
+import static org.eclipse.jgit.util.HttpSupport.METHOD_GET;
+import static org.eclipse.jgit.util.HttpSupport.METHOD_HEAD;
+import static org.eclipse.jgit.util.HttpSupport.METHOD_POST;
+import static org.eclipse.jgit.util.HttpSupport.METHOD_PUT;
+
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
@@ -76,6 +81,7 @@
 import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
 import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
 import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
+import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpHead;
 import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
 import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPut;
 import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest;
@@ -250,13 +256,15 @@ public void setRequestProperty(String name, String value) {
 
 	public void setRequestMethod(String method) throws ProtocolException {
 		this.method = method;
-		if ("GET".equalsIgnoreCase(method)) //$NON-NLS-1$
+		if (METHOD_GET.equalsIgnoreCase(method)) {
 			req = new HttpGet(url.toString());
-		else if ("PUT".equalsIgnoreCase(method)) //$NON-NLS-1$
+		} else if (METHOD_HEAD.equalsIgnoreCase(method)) {
+			req = new HttpHead(url.toString());
+		} else if (METHOD_PUT.equalsIgnoreCase(method)) {
 			req = new HttpPut(url.toString());
-		else if ("POST".equalsIgnoreCase(method)) //$NON-NLS-1$
+		} else if (METHOD_POST.equalsIgnoreCase(method)) {
 			req = new HttpPost(url.toString());
-		else {
+		} else {
 			this.method = null;
 			throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
 		}