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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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diff --git a/Lib/http/client.py b/Lib/http/client.py
index b9246fd..2ddb014 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)
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
index 84e1f80..6b09e07 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
@@ -224,6 +224,23 @@
             finally:
                 resp.close()
 
+    def test_chunked_head(self):
+        chunked_start = (
+            'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'
+            'Transfer-Encoding: chunked\r\n\r\n'
+            'a\r\n'
+            'hello world\r\n'
+            '1\r\n'
+            'd\r\n'
+        )
+        sock = FakeSocket(chunked_start + '0\r\n')
+        resp = client.HTTPResponse(sock, method="HEAD")
+        resp.begin()
+        self.assertEquals(resp.read(), b'')
+        self.assertEquals(resp.status, 200)
+        self.assertEquals(resp.reason, 'OK')
+        resp.close()
+
     def test_negative_content_length(self):
         sock = FakeSocket(
             'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Length: -1\r\n\r\nHello\r\n')