From 843672f4fe1158fc21e2bdabba44c178707766a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kenneth Reitz <me@kennethreitz.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 21:55:07 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] make empty body text responses work

#660
---
 requests/models.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/requests/models.py b/requests/models.py
index 3a0818d..c07bee0 100644
--- a/requests/models.py
+++ b/requests/models.py
@@ -785,6 +785,9 @@ class Response(object):
         content = None
         encoding = self.encoding
 
+        if not self.content:
+            return u''
+
         # Fallback to auto-detected encoding.
         if self.encoding is None:
             if chardet is not None:
-- 
2.7.4