Backport of 83120 (#9032)
XML-RPC client: Transport.request() retries on EPIPE error
The EPIPE error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a
"big" XML-RPC request (I don't know exactly the size threshold).
request() just have to ignore the error because single_request() closes the
socket on error, and so the next call to single_request() will open a new
socket.
Remove also a comment in the HTTP client because it's now wrong: see r70643 and
issue #5542.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 22aa5b8..9159137 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@
Library
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+- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
+ error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
+ XML-RPC request.
+
- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt