diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ab3412c1..6c6a7436 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # An ACME Shell script: acme.sh [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/Neilpang/acme.sh.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/Neilpang/acme.sh)
 
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 - An ACME protocol client written purely in Shell (Unix shell) language.
 - Full ACME protocol implementation.
 - Support ACME v1 and ACME v2
diff --git a/acme.sh b/acme.sh
index 980dc02f..2cb577e1 100755
--- a/acme.sh
+++ b/acme.sh
@@ -1697,6 +1697,9 @@ _post() {
     if [ "$HTTPS_INSECURE" ]; then
       _CURL="$_CURL --insecure  "
     fi
+    if [ "$httpmethod" = "HEAD" ]; then
+      _CURL="$_CURL -I  "
+    fi
     _debug "_CURL" "$_CURL"
     if [ "$needbase64" ]; then
       if [ "$_postContentType" ]; then