commit 2682638ee143fdf6fb716221c31cabd10ebd5198
author Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> Wed Apr 28 17:44:30 2010 +0000
committer Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> Wed Apr 28 17:44:30 2010 +0000
tree 90a715bc55bc0b9da4a2999c9995617bed4e864c
parent 95ff5249334e1322a11f9063ea1aabe1c4a3326e

Merged revisions 80587 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r80587 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-04-28 23:09:48 +0530 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 9 lines

  Merged revisions 80583 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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    r80583 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-04-28 22:50:43 +0530 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 3 lines

    Fixed Issue6312 - httplib fails with HEAD requests to pages with "transfer-encoding: chunked"
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Lib/http/client.py

diff --git a/Lib/http/client.py b/Lib/http/client.py
index 1de34ef..f9b74e4 100644
--- a/Lib/http/client.py
+++ b/Lib/http/client.py
@@ -487,6 +487,9 @@
         if self.fp is None:
             return b""
 
+        if self._method == "HEAD":
+            return b""
+
         if self.chunked:
             return self._read_chunked(amt)