Change urllib to use HTTPConnection rather than old HTTP class.

The HTTP class is a backwards compatibility layer for the Python 1.5
API.  (The only remaining use in the std library is xmlrpclib.)

The current change makes urllib issue HTTP/1.0 requests with
HTTPConnection, because is accesses HTTPResponse.fp directly instead
of using the read() method.  Using fp directly interacts poorly with
persistent connections.  There are probably better solutions than the
current one, but this is a start.

Lib/httplib.py

@@ -322,6 +322,13 @@ class HTTPResponse:
     # accepts iso-8859-1.
 
     def __init__(self, sock, debuglevel=0, strict=0, method=None):
+        # XXX If the response includes a content-length header, we
+        # need to make sure that the client doesn't read more than the
+        # specified number of bytes.  If it does, it will block until
+        # the server times out and closes the connection.  (The only
+        # applies to HTTP/1.1 connections.)  Since some clients access
+        # self.fp directly rather than calling read(), this is a little
+        # tricky.
         self.fp = sock.makefile("rb", 0)
         self.debuglevel = debuglevel
         self.strict = strict

Lib/urllib.py

@@ -81,11 +81,13 @@ def urlopen(url, data=None, proxies=None):
         return opener.open(url)
     else:
         return opener.open(url, data)
+
 def urlretrieve(url, filename=None, reporthook=None, data=None):
     global _urlopener
     if not _urlopener:
         _urlopener = FancyURLopener()
     return _urlopener.retrieve(url, filename, reporthook, data)
+
 def urlcleanup():
     if _urlopener:
         _urlopener.cleanup()
@@ -310,37 +312,44 @@ class URLopener:
             auth = base64.b64encode(user_passwd).strip()
         else:
             auth = None
-        h = httplib.HTTP(host)
+        http_conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(host)
+        # XXX We should fix urllib so that it works with HTTP/1.1.
+        http_conn._http_vsn = 10
+        http_conn._http_vsn_str = "HTTP/1.0"
+
+        headers = {}
+        if proxy_auth:
+            headers["Proxy-Authorization"] = "Basic %s" % proxy_auth
+        if auth:
+            headers["Authorization"] =  "Basic %s" % auth
+        if realhost:
+            headers["Host"] = realhost
+        for header, value in self.addheaders:
+            headers[header] = value
+
         if data is not None:
-            h.putrequest('POST', selector)
-            h.putheader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
-            h.putheader('Content-Length', '%d' % len(data))
+            headers["Content-Type"] = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
+            http_conn.request("POST", selector, data, headers)
         else:
-            h.putrequest('GET', selector)
-        if proxy_auth: h.putheader('Proxy-Authorization', 'Basic %s' % proxy_auth)
-        if auth: h.putheader('Authorization', 'Basic %s' % auth)
-        if realhost: h.putheader('Host', realhost)
-        for args in self.addheaders: h.putheader(*args)
-        h.endheaders()
-        if data is not None:
-            h.send(data)
-        errcode, errmsg, headers = h.getreply()
-        fp = h.getfile()
-        if errcode == -1:
-            if fp: fp.close()
+            http_conn.request("GET", selector, headers=headers)
+
+        try:
+            response = http_conn.getresponse()
+        except httplib.BadStatusLine:
             # something went wrong with the HTTP status line
-            raise IOError, ('http protocol error', 0,
+            raise IOError('http protocol error', 0,
                           'got a bad status line', None)
-        if errcode == 200:
-            return addinfourl(fp, headers, "http:" + url)
-        else:
-            if data is None:
-                return self.http_error(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers)
+
+        if response.status == 200:
+            return addinfourl(response.fp, response.msg, "http:" + url)
         else:
-                return self.http_error(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers, data)
+            return self.http_error(
+                url, response.fp,
+                response.status, response.reason, response.msg, data)
 
     def http_error(self, url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers, data=None):
         """Handle http errors.
+
         Derived class can override this, or provide specific handlers
         named http_error_DDD where DDD is the 3-digit error code."""
         # First check if there's a specific handler for this error
@@ -872,6 +881,8 @@ class ftpwrapper:
 class addbase:
     """Base class for addinfo and addclosehook."""
 
+    # XXX Add a method to expose the timeout on the underlying socket?
+
     def __init__(self, fp):
         self.fp = fp
         self.read = self.fp.read