(except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).

Vilmos Nebehaj.

Issue #11638: Adding test to ensure .tar.gz files can be generated by sdist command with unicode metadata, based on David Barnett's patch.
Issue #11638: Added tests to capture failures in make_tarball with various unicode strings.
Following fix for Issue #13639, these tests now pass.

dropped connections in case of simultaneous connection requests.

Issue12798 - Update mimetypes documentation. Correct the doc section where
common_types was mentioned under MimeTypes class, move it to helper function
category and other documentation improvements contributed by Sandro Tosi.

maintained only till 2.5 and tests had failures with 2.7) and update the links
int the howto document.

Passing a unicode filename to tarfile.open() along with mode "w|gz" failed
with a UnicodeError because the filename was not encoded properly before being
written to the gzipped stream in the FNAME extra field.

(2.7-only)

Also fixes issue #13581: `help(type)` wouldn't display anything.