What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Have a server return an invalid response that will trigger an exception (BadStatusLine, for example) 2. The connection will not be closed until it goes out of scope

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? The connection should be closed before the exception is re-raised

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

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This should be fixed with commit https://code.google.com/p/httplib2/source/detail?r=fae31589d6cc7d5ea4184bd515dd818900ec7f5a