Merge pull request #2809 from nijel/stable

Support gzip encoding in HEAD requests

CHANGES

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Bugs fixed
 
 * #2778: Fix autodoc crashes if obj.__dict__ is a property method and raises exception
 * Fix duplicated toc in epub3 output.
+* #2775: Fix failing linkcheck with servers not supporting identidy encoding
 
 Release 1.4.5 (released Jul 13, 2016)
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sphinx/builders/linkcheck.py

@@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:25.0) '
 
 class HeadRequest(Request):
     """Subclass of urllib2.Request that sends a HEAD request."""
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        Request.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
+        # we do not parse the response in HEAD, so accepting anything is okay
+        self.headers['Accept-encoding'] = '*'
+
     def get_method(self):
         return 'HEAD'