Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response didn't
contain a valid HTTP status line.
(backport from rev. 54376)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d94b0f7..3798994 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -205,6 +205,10 @@
Library
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+- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
+ AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response didn't
+ contain a valid HTTP status line.
+
- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.