def is_response_to_head(response):
    """
    Checks whether the request of a response has been a HEAD-request.
    Handles the quirks of AppEngine.

    :param conn:
    :type conn: :class:`httplib.HTTPResponse`
    """
    # FIXME: Can we do this somehow without accessing private httplib _method?
    method = response._method
    if isinstance(method, int):  # Platform-specific: Appengine
        return method == 3
    return method.upper() == "HEAD"

    Checks whether the request of a response has been a HEAD-request.
    Handles the quirks of AppEngine.

    :param conn:
    :type conn: :class:`httplib.HTTPResponse`
    
product/gradle-plugin/src/main/python/pip/_vendor/urllib3/util/response.py