SF bug 622042: Don't expect response body from HEAD request.
Bug fix candidate.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
index 8764455..29f4503 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
@@ -78,4 +78,17 @@
if cookies != hdr:
raise AssertionError, "multiple headers not combined properly"
+ # test that the library doesn't attempt to read any data
+ # from a head request
+ conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("www.python.org")
+ conn.connect()
+ conn.request("HEAD", "/", headers={"Connection" : "keep-alive"})
+ resp = conn.getresponse()
+ if resp.status != 200:
+ raise AssertionError, "Expected status 200, got %d" % resp.status
+ if resp.read() != "":
+ raise AssertionError, "Did not expect response from HEAD request"
+ resp.close()
+ conn.close()
+
test()