Patch by Tim O'Malley for servers that send a response looking just like

    HTTP/1.x 200
instead of
    HTTP/1.x 200 OK

Lib/httplib.py

@@ -122,6 +122,10 @@ class HTTP:
         if self.debuglevel > 0: print 'reply:', `line`
         try:
             [ver, code, msg] = string.split(line, None, 2)
+        except ValueError:
+          try:
+              [ver, code] = string.split(line, None, 1)
+              msg = ""
           except ValueError:
               self.headers = None
               return -1, line, self.headers