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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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+- 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 #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
 
 - Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX.  Patch by