commit 379eaac7a7850ff0e05c2af161cda497e639718a
author Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> Wed Apr 28 17:25:58 2010 +0000
committer Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> Wed Apr 28 17:25:58 2010 +0000
tree f1e284b38d1920955a2406fb39d17a3bde2de019
parent d54cdf038a480d047fcfcf6779bfcecf83953b90

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/httplib.py

diff --git a/Lib/httplib.py b/Lib/httplib.py
index e5ef8b7..262d602 100644
--- a/Lib/httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/httplib.py
@@ -514,6 +514,9 @@
         if self.fp is None:
             return ''
 
+        if self._method == 'HEAD':
+            return ''
+
         if self.chunked:
             return self._read_chunked(amt)