Which property is associated with the HTTP response of a HEAD request?

A HEAD request is primarily used to retrieve the headers of a resource, without the actual content of the resource itself. This makes it particularly useful for checking what a GET request would return before actually making that request. The response to a HEAD request includes metadata in the form of HTTP headers that can provide essential information about the resource, such as its size, type, last modified date, and other HTTP response headers that one might need without transferring the full data.

This feature of the HEAD request allows clients to determine whether the resource is available and to gather some basic characteristics without the overhead of downloading the entire content, which is particularly valuable in scenarios where bandwidth usage is a concern. Thus, the correct association of a HEAD request with response properties is that it may contain headers that provide metadata information.