Android’s HttpURLConnection throws EOFException on HEAD requests

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Turned out this is a known bug in Android’s class implementation. Calling Connection.setRequestProperty( "Accept-Encoding", "" ); before connecting can be used as workaround.

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=24672

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