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Diffstat (limited to 'requests/packages/urllib3/response.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | requests/packages/urllib3/response.py | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/requests/packages/urllib3/response.py b/requests/packages/urllib3/response.py index 833be62..0761dc0 100644 --- a/requests/packages/urllib3/response.py +++ b/requests/packages/urllib3/response.py @@ -145,7 +145,17 @@ class HTTPResponse(object): # cStringIO doesn't like amt=None data = self._fp.read() else: - return self._fp.read(amt) + data = self._fp.read(amt) + if amt != 0 and not data: # Platform-specific: Buggy versions of Python. + # Close the connection when no data is returned + # + # This is redundant to what httplib/http.client _should_ + # already do. However, versions of python released before + # December 15, 2012 (http://bugs.python.org/issue16298) do not + # properly close the connection in all cases. There is no harm + # in redundantly calling close. + self._fp.close() + return data try: if decode_content and decoder: |