Neither, I was reading through a Twisted ticket and it was mentioned that this server was breaking the new HTTP client (and why). I then confirmed this ridiculo

Neither, I was reading through a Twisted ticket and it was mentioned that this server was breaking the new HTTP client (and why). I then confirmed this ridiculousness myself, and posted it. I wrote one in 2008, though. Okay, most of one. But in my defense, no comparable [python] client existed at the time and I needed the functionality (synchronous requests were out of the question; a couple threaded clients were available but not robust or fast enough). As a general programmer rule, I tend to avoid writing code wherever possible :)