From 447f82f95ff911e86ace0887af3e8dcee5a2946a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 16:38:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 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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 Lib/http/client.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Lib/http/client.py b/Lib/http/client.py
index 2ddb0148cc1..c83c53b60b0 100644
--- a/Lib/http/client.py
+++ b/Lib/http/client.py
@@ -488,6 +488,7 @@ def read(self, amt=None):
             return b""
 
         if self._method == "HEAD":
+            self.close()
             return b""
 
         if self.chunked: