diff --git a/adafruit_requests.py b/adafruit_requests.py
index 5bcf0e4..d15db69 100644
--- a/adafruit_requests.py
+++ b/adafruit_requests.py
@@ -102,11 +102,12 @@ class Response:
     It is still necessary to ``close`` the response object for correct management of
     sockets, including doing so implicitly via ``with requests.get(...) as response``."""
 
-    def __init__(self, sock: SocketType, session: "Session") -> None:
+    def __init__(self, sock: SocketType, session: "Session", method: str) -> None:
         self.socket = sock
         self.encoding = "utf-8"
         self._cached = None
         self._headers = {}
+        self._method = method
 
         # _start_index and _receive_buffer are used when parsing headers.
         # _receive_buffer will grow by 32 bytes everytime it is too small.
@@ -276,6 +277,15 @@ def _parse_headers(self) -> None:
                 else:
                     self._headers[title] = content
 
+        # does the body have a fixed length? (of zero)
+        if (
+            self.status_code == 204
+            or self.status_code == 304
+            or 100 <= self.status_code < 200  # 1xx codes
+            or self._method == "HEAD"
+        ):
+            self._remaining = 0
+
     def _validate_not_gzip(self) -> None:
         """gzip encoding is not supported. Raise an exception if found."""
         if "content-encoding" in self.headers and self.headers["content-encoding"] == "gzip":
@@ -670,7 +680,7 @@ def request(  # noqa: PLR0912,PLR0913,PLR0915 Too many branches,Too many argumen
         if not socket:
             raise OutOfRetries("Repeated socket failures") from last_exc
 
-        resp = Response(socket, self)  # our response
+        resp = Response(socket, self, method)  # our response
         if allow_redirects:
             if "location" in resp.headers and 300 <= resp.status_code <= 399:
                 # a naive handler for redirects
diff --git a/tests/real_call_test.py b/tests/real_call_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3ef3627
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/real_call_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Justin Myers
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Unlicense
+
+"""Real call Tests"""
+
+import socket
+import ssl
+
+import adafruit_connection_manager
+import pytest
+
+import adafruit_requests
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("path", "status_code", "text_result", "json_keys"),
+    (
+        ("get", 200, None, {"url": "https://httpbin.org/get"}),
+        ("status/200", 200, "", None),
+        ("status/204", 204, "", None),
+    ),
+)
+def test_gets(path, status_code, text_result, json_keys):
+    requests = adafruit_requests.Session(socket, ssl.create_default_context())
+    with requests.get(f"https://httpbin.org/{path}") as response:
+        assert response.status_code == status_code
+        if text_result is not None:
+            assert response.text == text_result
+        if json_keys is not None:
+            for key, value in json_keys.items():
+                assert response.json()[key] == value
+
+    adafruit_connection_manager.connection_manager_close_all(release_references=True)