HEAD requests never receive an input body
diff --git a/wagon-providers/wagon-http-lightweight/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/wagon/providers/http/LightweightHttpWagon.java b/wagon-providers/wagon-http-lightweight/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/wagon/providers/http/LightweightHttpWagon.java
index d4910e5..fe06e15 100644
--- a/wagon-providers/wagon-http-lightweight/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/wagon/providers/http/LightweightHttpWagon.java
+++ b/wagon-providers/wagon-http-lightweight/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/wagon/providers/http/LightweightHttpWagon.java
@@ -441,7 +441,6 @@
             addHeaders( headConnection );
 
             headConnection.setRequestMethod( "HEAD" );
-            headConnection.setDoOutput( true );
 
             int statusCode = headConnection.getResponseCode();