HEAD requests do not work with the pycurl_manager module
**Impact of the bug**
WMCore in general

**Describe the bug**
I don't remember the exact problem now, but either it fails or it does not return any information. The problem is with the positional arguments.

**How to reproduce it**
Make a HEAD request through pycurl_manager module

**Expected behavior**
HEAD requests should return only the response HEADER; and it should work!

**Additional context and error message**
none

diff --git a/src/python/WMCore/Services/pycurl_manager.py b/src/python/WMCore/Services/pycurl_manager.py
index bd66d6da9..28d248827 100644
--- a/src/python/WMCore/Services/pycurl_manager.py
+++ b/src/python/WMCore/Services/pycurl_manager.py
@@ -90,6 +90,30 @@ class ResponseHeader(object):
             except:
                 pass
 
+    def getReason(self):
+        """
+        Return the HTTP request reason
+        """
+        return self.reason
+
+    def getHeader(self):
+        """
+        Return the header dictionary object
+        """
+        return self.header
+
+    def getHeaderKey(self, keyName):
+        """
+        Provided a key name, return it from the HTTP header.
+        Note that - by design - header keys are meant to be
+        case insensitive
+        :param keyName: a header key name to be looked up
+        :return: the value for that header key, or None if not found
+        """
+        for keyHea, valHea in self.header.items():
+            if keyHea.lower() == keyName.lower():
+                return valHea
+
 
 class RequestHandler(object):
     """
@@ -291,7 +315,7 @@ class RequestHandler(object):
                   verbose=0, ckey=None, cert=None, doseq=True):
         """Fetch HTTP header"""
         header, _ = self.request(url, params, headers, verb,
-                                 verbose, ckey, cert, doseq)
+                                 verbose, ckey, cert, doseq=doseq)
         return header
 
     def multirequest(self, url, parray, headers=None,
diff --git a/test/python/WMCore_t/Services_t/pycurl_manager_t.py b/test/python/WMCore_t/Services_t/pycurl_manager_t.py
index aeda955cb..e49da8cae 100644
--- a/test/python/WMCore_t/Services_t/pycurl_manager_t.py
+++ b/test/python/WMCore_t/Services_t/pycurl_manager_t.py
@@ -4,10 +4,9 @@ Unit test for pycurl_manager module.
 
 from __future__ import division
 
-import os
 import tempfile
 import unittest
-
+from Utils.CertTools import getKeyCertFromEnv
 from WMCore.Services.pycurl_manager import RequestHandler, ResponseHeader, getdata, cern_sso_cookie
 
 
@@ -17,8 +16,10 @@ class PyCurlManager(unittest.TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         "initialization"
         self.mgr = RequestHandler()
-        self.ckey = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'], '.globus/userkey.pem')
-        self.cert = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'], '.globus/usercert.pem')
+        #self.ckey = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'], '.globus/userkey.pem')
+        #self.cert = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'], '.globus/usercert.pem')
+        self.ckey = getKeyCertFromEnv()[0]
+        self.cert = getKeyCertFromEnv()[1]
 
         self.cricheader = 'Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2018 14:50:29 GMT\\r\\nServer: Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips mod_wsgi/3.4 Python/2.7.5 mod_gridsite/2.3.4\\r\\nVary: Cookie\\r\\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\\r\\nSet-Cookie: sessionid=bc1xu8zi5rbbsd5fgjuklb2tk2r3f6tw; expires=Sun, 11-Nov-2018 14:50:29 GMT; httponly; Max-Age=432000; Path=/\\r\\nContent-Length: 32631\\r\\nContent-Type: application/json\\r\\n\\r\\n'
         self.dbsheader = 'Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2018 14:39:07 GMT\\r\\nServer: Apache\\r\\nCMS-Server-Time: D=1503 t=1541515147806112\\r\\nTransfer-Encoding: chunked\\r\\nContent-Type: text/html\\r\\n\\r\\n'
@@ -135,6 +136,18 @@ class PyCurlManager(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(resp.header['X-Frame-Options'], 'SAMEORIGIN')
         return
 
+    def testHeadRequest(self):
+        """
+        Test a HEAD request.
+        """
+        params = {}
+        headers = {}
+        url = 'https://cmsweb.cern.ch/reqmgr2/data/info'
+        res = self.mgr.getheader(url, params=params, headers=headers, ckey=self.ckey, cert=self.cert)
+        self.assertEqual(res.getReason(), "OK")
+        self.assertTrue(len(res.getHeader()) > 10)
+        self.assertTrue(res.getHeaderKey("Server").startswith("CherryPy/"))
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()
['test/python/WMCore_t/Services_t/pycurl_manager_t.py', 'src/python/WMCore/Services/pycurl_manager.py']