commit 71fb6c88a8f8e04968a726945ef53b4dee6e10c9
author Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> Wed Apr 28 17:39:48 2010 +0000
committer Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> Wed Apr 28 17:39:48 2010 +0000
tree ae97135471f1cc012166bf824f71d7682ba90e3c
parent 6237daf8c5c17db55af6620460e6c3c7ef2d35ef

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 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)