diff --git a/Doc/howto/pyporting.rst b/Doc/howto/pyporting.rst
index 309f3f7..3eca496 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/pyporting.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/pyporting.rst
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 Finally, you do have the option of :ref:`using 2to3 <use_2to3>` to translate
 Python 2 code into Python 3 code (with some manual help). This can take the
 form of branching your code and using 2to3 to start a Python 3 branch. You can
-also have users perform the translation as installation time automatically so
+also have users perform the translation at installation time automatically so
 that you only have to maintain a Python 2 codebase.
 
 Regardless of which approach you choose, porting is not as hard or
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@
 ``b'py'[1:2]`` is ``'y'`` in Python 2 and ``b'y'`` in Python 3 (i.e., close
 enough).
 
-You cannot concatenate bytes and strings in Python 3. But since in Python
+You cannot concatenate bytes and strings in Python 3. But since Python
 2 has bytes aliased to ``str``, it will succeed: ``b'a' + u'b'`` works in
 Python 2, but ``b'a' + 'b'`` in Python 3 is a :exc:`TypeError`. A similar issue
 also comes about when doing comparisons between bytes and strings.
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@
 textual data, people have over the years been rather loose in their delineation
 of what ``str`` instances held text compared to bytes. In Python 3 you cannot
 be so care-free anymore and need to properly handle the difference. The key
-handling this issue to make sure that **every** string literal in your
+handling this issue is to make sure that **every** string literal in your
 Python 2 code is either syntactically of functionally marked as either bytes or
 text data. After this is done you then need to make sure your APIs are designed
 to either handle a specific type or made to be properly polymorphic.
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@
 and then designating textual data with a ``u`` prefix or using the
 ``unicode_literals`` future statement.
 
-If your project supports versions of Python pre-dating 2.6, then you should use
+If your project supports versions of Python predating 2.6, then you should use
 the six_ project and its ``b()`` function to denote bytes literals. For text
 literals you can either use six's ``u()`` function or use a ``u`` prefix.
 
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@
 There are two ways to solve this issue. One is to use a custom 2to3 fixer. The
 blog post at http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/1/22/forwards-compatible-python/
 specifies how to do this. That will allow 2to3 to change all instances of ``def
-__unicode(self): ...`` to ``def __str__(self): ...``. This does require you
+__unicode(self): ...`` to ``def __str__(self): ...``. This does require that you
 define your ``__str__()`` method in Python 2 before your ``__unicode__()``
 method.
 
diff --git a/Doc/howto/sockets.rst b/Doc/howto/sockets.rst
index f15d659..c4b3f71 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/sockets.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/sockets.rst
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@
 there, you may wait forever for the reply, because the request may still be in
 your output buffer.
 
-Now we come the major stumbling block of sockets - ``send`` and ``recv`` operate
+Now we come to the major stumbling block of sockets - ``send`` and ``recv`` operate
 on the network buffers. They do not necessarily handle all the bytes you hand
 them (or expect from them), because their major focus is handling the network
 buffers. In general, they return when the associated network buffers have been
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@
 When a ``recv`` returns 0 bytes, it means the other side has closed (or is in
 the process of closing) the connection.  You will not receive any more data on
 this connection. Ever.  You may be able to send data successfully; I'll talk
-about that some on the next page.
+more about this later.
 
 A protocol like HTTP uses a socket for only one transfer. The client sends a
 request, then reads a reply.  That's it. The socket is discarded. This means that
diff --git a/Lib/httplib.py b/Lib/httplib.py
index 13629c4..5d16e53 100644
--- a/Lib/httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/httplib.py
@@ -748,7 +748,11 @@
             line = response.fp.readline(_MAXLINE + 1)
             if len(line) > _MAXLINE:
                 raise LineTooLong("header line")
-            if line == '\r\n': break
+            if not line:
+                # for sites which EOF without sending trailer
+                break
+            if line == '\r\n':
+                break
 
 
     def connect(self):
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index 674af6a..68ba21f 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -1498,7 +1498,8 @@
             raise ImportError, 'no Python documentation found for %r' % thing
         return object, thing
     else:
-        return thing, getattr(thing, '__name__', None)
+        name = getattr(thing, '__name__', None)
+        return thing, name if isinstance(name, str) else None
 
 def render_doc(thing, title='Python Library Documentation: %s', forceload=0):
     """Render text documentation, given an object or a path to an object."""
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py b/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
index 59cbffe..d95e706 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
@@ -249,6 +249,17 @@
         result, doc_loc = get_pydoc_text(xml.etree)
         self.assertEqual(doc_loc, "", "MODULE DOCS incorrectly includes a link")
 
+    def test_non_str_name(self):
+        # issue14638
+        # Treat illegal (non-str) name like no name
+        class A:
+            __name__ = 42
+        class B:
+            pass
+        adoc = pydoc.render_doc(A())
+        bdoc = pydoc.render_doc(B())
+        self.assertEqual(adoc.replace("A", "B"), bdoc)
+
     def test_not_here(self):
         missing_module = "test.i_am_not_here"
         result = run_pydoc(missing_module)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_thread.py b/Lib/test/test_thread.py
index ae9a7d9..413889a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_thread.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_thread.py
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
             thread.start_new_thread(task, ())
             started.acquire()
             while thread._count() > c:
-                pass
+                time.sleep(0.01)
         self.assertIn("Traceback", stderr.getvalue())
 
 
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index af0cd5f..44194fd 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -774,6 +774,7 @@
 Denis Severson
 Ian Seyer
 Ha Shao
+Mark Shannon
 Richard Shapiro
 Bruce Sherwood
 Alexander Shigin
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 20ca968..9f7cbdd 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #14638: pydoc now treats non-string __name__ values as if they
+  were missing, instead of raising an error.
+
+- Issue #13684: Fix httplib tunnel issue of infinite loops for certain sites
+  which send EOF without trailing \r\n.
+ 
 - Issue #14308: Fix an exception when a "dummy" thread is in the threading
   module's active list after a fork().