[issue8823] urllib2 does not catch httplib.BadStatusLine

[Senthil Kumaran]

Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil at gmail.com> added the comment:

urllib2 is currently catching the socket.error exceptions and presenting the reason as custom URLError exception. To address this issue, the module should catch the httplib raised exceptions also and present it.

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assignee:  -> orsenthil
nosy: +orsenthil
resolution:  -> accepted

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