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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/httplib.py b/Lib/httplib.py
index 262d60259c22858608ee26041327b06a88d1f97f..5b89305899d74e97f80c6b8ec87a305228c0498a 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/httplib.py
@@ -515,6 +515,7 @@ class HTTPResponse:
             return ''
 
         if self._method == 'HEAD':
+            self.close()
             return ''
 
         if self.chunked: