commit c74a6ba2d6c1f331896cf8dacc698b0b88c7e670
author Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> Fri Jun 17 14:06:27 2011 +0200
committer Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> Fri Jun 17 14:06:27 2011 +0200
tree 0ca7a6da7610fa8d084519c371e1ef7100289fc9
parent 898d43c7af909ba2e154cfd2d09dd8d604b0615c

Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch written
by Ezio Melotti.

Lib/urllib2.py

diff --git a/Lib/urllib2.py b/Lib/urllib2.py
index abc84b1..2641619 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib2.py
@@ -1172,6 +1172,8 @@
                 r = h.getresponse()
         except socket.error, err: # XXX what error?
             raise URLError(err)
+        finally:
+            h.close()
 
         # Pick apart the HTTPResponse object to get the addinfourl
         # object initialized properly.