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

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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
@@ -488,6 +488,7 @@ def read(self, amt=None):
             return b""
 
         if self._method == "HEAD":
+            self.close()
             return b""
 
         if self.chunked:
