Merged revisions 81687 via svnmerge from

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

........
  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.
........

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: