commit 41142f50c32719e0a979349e26c50e8f94602356
author Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> Fri Jun 04 16:43:10 2010 +0000
committer Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> Fri Jun 04 16:43:10 2010 +0000
tree e1cbcb3463b15284e93172df08b4abd4b2fc58d3
parent 99147c40b5d67d875b5a383d2ed2f54c02da82de

Merged revisions 81689 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r81689 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-06-04 22:08:00 +0530 (Fri, 04 Jun 2010) | 9 lines

  Merged revisions 81687 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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    r81687 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-06-04 22:02:14 +0530 (Fri, 04 Jun 2010) | 3 lines

    Fix issue6312 - close the resp object for HEAD response.
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Lib/http/client.py

diff --git a/Lib/http/client.py b/Lib/http/client.py
index f9b74e4..612fa37 100644
--- a/Lib/http/client.py
+++ b/Lib/http/client.py
@@ -488,6 +488,7 @@
             return b""
 
         if self._method == "HEAD":
+            self.close()
             return b""
 
         if self.chunked: