In August, Greg said this looked good, so I'm going ahead with it.

The fix is different from the one in the bug report.  Instead of using
a regular expression to extract the host from the url, I use
urlparse.urlsplit.

Martin commented that the patch doesn't address URLs that have basic
authentication username and password in the header.  I don't see any
code anywhere in httplib that supports this feature, so I'm not going
to address it for this fix.

Bug fix candidate.