From b2d3292e574a249871f70752c8d12d42b1a11309 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:33:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Attempting to read 0 bytes from an HTTPResponse closes the
 connection

---
 splunklib/binding.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/splunklib/binding.py b/splunklib/binding.py
index 426973297..fc9aa19bf 100644
--- a/splunklib/binding.py
+++ b/splunklib/binding.py
@@ -1270,7 +1270,8 @@ def read(self, size = None):
         self._buffer = ''
         if size is not None:
             size -= len(r)
-        r = r + self._response.read(size)
+        if size != 0:
+            r = r + self._response.read(size)
         return r
 
     def readable(self):