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  r81687 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-06-04 22:02:14 +0530 (Fri, 04 Jun 2010) | 3 lines

  Fix issue6312 - close the resp object for HEAD response.
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diff --git a/Lib/http/client.py b/Lib/http/client.py
index 2ddb014..c83c53b 100644
--- a/Lib/http/client.py
+++ b/Lib/http/client.py
@@ -488,6 +488,7 @@
             return b""
 
         if self._method == "HEAD":
+            self.close()
             return b""
 
         if self.chunked: