commit 02f6894af5ac2bdd2e8468bc48011cfdae72ea14
author Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> Fri Mar 23 07:52:45 2001 +0000
committer Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> Fri Mar 23 07:52:45 2001 +0000
tree dfc0a24a7ba4fcc1a920436b84156bbb8021f040
parent 76576cd1e28ad07f098de464f6da1c93e262f652

now always stops reading a HEAD reply after all the headers have been returned
RFC 2616, section 9.4 says: "The HEAD method is identical to GET except that
the server MUST NOT return a message-body in the response."

lib/transfer.c

diff --git a/lib/transfer.c b/lib/transfer.c
index 13f292d..54fbab1 100644
--- a/lib/transfer.c
+++ b/lib/transfer.c
@@ -356,11 +356,10 @@
                   /*
                    * end-of-headers.
                    *
-                   * If we requested a "no body" and this isn't a "close"
-                   * connection, this is a good time to get out and return
-                   * home.
+                   * If we requested a "no body", this is a good time to get
+                   * out and return home.
                    */
-                  if(!conn->bits.close && data->bits.no_body)
+                  if(data->bits.no_body)
                     return CURLE_OK;
                   break;		/* exit header line loop */
                 }