From: Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 16:32:14 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fix issue6312 - close the resp object for HEAD response.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7rc1~36
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dfaced5d3df73cccaf56733c1733c9c8340ca04d;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Fix issue6312 - close the resp object for HEAD response.
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diff --git a/Lib/httplib.py b/Lib/httplib.py
index 5eb3f0d1fa3c..d66a9fcd05b1 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: