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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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Library
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+- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
+ It should correctly return an empty response now.
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- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline
before the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.