httplib patch for 2.4 (was: Re: [Python-Dev] 2.4a2 ...)

[John J Lee]

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Anthony Baxter wrote:
[...]
> We're aiming for 2.4a2 this Thursday - so can people please
> hold off on checking into the trunk from Wednesday evening
> onwards, please.
[...]

Would somebody mind checking this in:

http://www.python.org/sf/997626


It fixes a bug in httplib which badly breaks urllib2 now that urllib2 is
using httplib.HTTPConnection instead of httplib.HTTP (POSTs don't work).

It includes patch and a new test, and does not require doc updates, but
nobody has reviewed it yet.


John