Close HTTP connections without body content. Github issue #376

doc/changelog.txt

@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ Fixes:
   Closes: GH bug #369
 - checking: Catch UnicodeError from idna.encode() fixing an internal error when
   trying to connect to certain invalid hostnames.
+- checking: Always close HTTP connections without body content.
+  See also http://bugs.python.org/issue16298
+  Closes: GH bug #376
 
 
 8.3 "Mahna Mahna Killer" (released 6.1.2013)

linkcheck/httplib2.py

@@ -569,6 +569,9 @@ class HTTPResponse:
             self.length -= len(s)
             if not self.length:
                 self.close()
+        else:
+            if not s:
+                self.close()
         return s
 
     def _read_chunked(self, amt):