commit ed9204346e02a2353752a38bf0381b622938c0bb
author Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> Wed Apr 28 17:20:43 2010 +0000
committer Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> Wed Apr 28 17:20:43 2010 +0000
tree e2c98bef56d94ba3701b48bc4ed5cf82e288f662
parent ad709ee06bbf7aec47c92b2ac29bc21f9e05a93d

Fixed Issue6312 - httplib fails with HEAD requests to pages with "transfer-encoding: chunked"

Lib/httplib.py

diff --git a/Lib/httplib.py b/Lib/httplib.py
index 43c8797..5eb3f0d 100644
--- a/Lib/httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/httplib.py
@@ -524,6 +524,9 @@
         if self.fp is None:
             return ''
 
+        if self._method == 'HEAD':
+            return ''
+
         if self.chunked:
             return self._read_chunked(amt)