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+- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
+  It should correctly return an empty response now.
+
 - Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
 
 - Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX.  Patch by