Added a 'create_connect()' function to socket.py, which creates a
connection with an optional timeout, and modified httplib.py to
use this function in HTTPConnection. Applies patch 1676823.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 3489240..dd8f51e 100644
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@@ -199,6 +199,10 @@
Library
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+- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
+ called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
+ now accepts an optional timeout).
+
- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can