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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)