From abccff16ea2e6908c62dfe5592ee4e5c83016716 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: calvin <calvin@e7d03fd6-7b0d-0410-9947-9c21f3af8025>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 23:00:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fall back to GET on bad status line

git-svn-id: https://linkchecker.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/linkchecker/trunk/linkchecker@1317 e7d03fd6-7b0d-0410-9947-9c21f3af8025
---
 linkcheck/HttpUrlData.py | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/linkcheck/HttpUrlData.py b/linkcheck/HttpUrlData.py
index e1a76ee1..55bf449b 100644
--- a/linkcheck/HttpUrlData.py
+++ b/linkcheck/HttpUrlData.py
@@ -124,7 +124,16 @@ class HttpUrlData (ProxyUrlData):
         fallback = False
         redirectCache = [self.url]
         while True:
-            response = self._getHttpResponse()
+            try:
+                response = self._getHttpResponse()
+            except httplib2.BadStatusLine:
+                # some servers send empty HEAD replies
+                if self.method=="HEAD":
+                    self.method = "GET"
+                    redirectCache = [self.url]
+                    fallback = True
+                    continue
+                raise
             self.headers = response.msg
             debug(BRING_IT_ON, response.status, response.reason, self.headers)
             # proxy enforcement (overrides standard proxy)