From dfaced5d3df73cccaf56733c1733c9c8340ca04d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 16:32:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix issue6312 - close the resp object for HEAD response.

---
 Lib/httplib.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Lib/httplib.py b/Lib/httplib.py
index 5eb3f0d1fa..d66a9fcd05 100644
--- a/Lib/httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/httplib.py
@@ -525,6 +525,7 @@ class HTTPResponse:
             return ''
 
         if self._method == 'HEAD':
+            self.close()
             return ''
 
         if self.chunked:
-- 
2.50.0