From: Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 16:43:10 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Merged revisions 81689 via svnmerge from
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Merged revisions 81689 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r81689 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-06-04 22:08:00 +0530 (Fri, 04 Jun 2010) | 9 lines

  Merged revisions 81687 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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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 f9b74e49e5..612fa3752c 100644
--- a/Lib/http/client.py
+++ b/Lib/http/client.py
@@ -488,6 +488,7 @@ class HTTPResponse(io.RawIOBase):
             return b""
 
         if self._method == "HEAD":
+            self.close()
             return b""
 
         if self.chunked: