diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2_localnet.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2_localnet.py
index 54bf2d9..43edc09 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2_localnet.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2_localnet.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
+import mimetools
 import threading
 import urlparse
 import urllib2
@@ -216,7 +217,7 @@
 # Test cases
 
 class ProxyAuthTests(unittest.TestCase):
-    URL = "http://www.foo.com"
+    URL = "http://localhost"
 
     USER = "tester"
     PASSWD = "test123"
@@ -278,6 +279,204 @@
                 pass
             result.close()
 
+
+def GetRequestHandler(responses):
+
+    class FakeHTTPRequestHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
+
+        server_version = "TestHTTP/"
+        requests = []
+        headers_received = []
+        port = 80
+
+        def do_GET(self):
+            body = self.send_head()
+            if body:
+                self.wfile.write(body)
+
+        def do_POST(self):
+            content_length = self.headers['Content-Length']
+            post_data = self.rfile.read(int(content_length))
+            self.do_GET()
+            self.requests.append(post_data)
+
+        def send_head(self):
+            FakeHTTPRequestHandler.headers_received = self.headers
+            self.requests.append(self.path)
+            response_code, headers, body = responses.pop(0)
+
+            self.send_response(response_code)
+
+            for (header, value) in headers:
+                self.send_header(header, value % self.port)
+            if body:
+                self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/plain')
+                self.end_headers()
+                return body
+            self.end_headers()
+
+        def log_message(self, *args):
+            pass
+
+
+    return FakeHTTPRequestHandler
+
+
+class TestUrlopen(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Tests urllib2.urlopen using the network.
+
+    These tests are not exhaustive.  Assuming that testing using files does a
+    good job overall of some of the basic interface features.  There are no
+    tests exercising the optional 'data' and 'proxies' arguments.  No tests
+    for transparent redirection have been written.
+    """
+
+    def start_server(self, responses):
+        handler = GetRequestHandler(responses)
+
+        self.server = LoopbackHttpServerThread(handler)
+        self.server.start()
+        self.server.ready.wait()
+        port = self.server.port
+        handler.port = port
+        return handler
+
+
+    def test_redirection(self):
+        expected_response = 'We got here...'
+        responses = [
+            (302, [('Location', 'http://localhost:%s/somewhere_else')], ''),
+            (200, [], expected_response)
+        ]
+
+        handler = self.start_server(responses)
+
+        try:
+            f = urllib2.urlopen('http://localhost:%s/' % handler.port)
+            data = f.read()
+            f.close()
+
+            self.assertEquals(data, expected_response)
+            self.assertEquals(handler.requests, ['/', '/somewhere_else'])
+        finally:
+            self.server.stop()
+
+
+    def test_404(self):
+        expected_response = 'Bad bad bad...'
+        handler = self.start_server([(404, [], expected_response)])
+
+        try:
+            try:
+                urllib2.urlopen('http://localhost:%s/weeble' % handler.port)
+            except urllib2.URLError, f:
+                pass
+            else:
+                self.fail('404 should raise URLError')
+
+            data = f.read()
+            f.close()
+
+            self.assertEquals(data, expected_response)
+            self.assertEquals(handler.requests, ['/weeble'])
+        finally:
+            self.server.stop()
+
+
+    def test_200(self):
+        expected_response = 'pycon 2008...'
+        handler = self.start_server([(200, [], expected_response)])
+
+        try:
+            f = urllib2.urlopen('http://localhost:%s/bizarre' % handler.port)
+            data = f.read()
+            f.close()
+
+            self.assertEquals(data, expected_response)
+            self.assertEquals(handler.requests, ['/bizarre'])
+        finally:
+            self.server.stop()
+
+    def test_200_with_parameters(self):
+        expected_response = 'pycon 2008...'
+        handler = self.start_server([(200, [], expected_response)])
+
+        try:
+            f = urllib2.urlopen('http://localhost:%s/bizarre' % handler.port, 'get=with_feeling')
+            data = f.read()
+            f.close()
+
+            self.assertEquals(data, expected_response)
+            self.assertEquals(handler.requests, ['/bizarre', 'get=with_feeling'])
+        finally:
+            self.server.stop()
+
+
+    def test_sending_headers(self):
+        handler = self.start_server([(200, [], "we don't care")])
+
+        try:
+            req = urllib2.Request("http://localhost:%s/" % handler.port,
+                                  headers={'Range': 'bytes=20-39'})
+            urllib2.urlopen(req)
+            self.assertEqual(handler.headers_received['Range'], 'bytes=20-39')
+        finally:
+            self.server.stop()
+
+    def test_basic(self):
+        handler = self.start_server([(200, [], "we don't care")])
+
+        try:
+            open_url = urllib2.urlopen("http://localhost:%s" % handler.port)
+            for attr in ("read", "close", "info", "geturl"):
+                self.assert_(hasattr(open_url, attr), "object returned from "
+                             "urlopen lacks the %s attribute" % attr)
+            try:
+                self.assert_(open_url.read(), "calling 'read' failed")
+            finally:
+                open_url.close()
+        finally:
+            self.server.stop()
+
+    def test_info(self):
+        handler = self.start_server([(200, [], "we don't care")])
+
+        try:
+            open_url = urllib2.urlopen("http://localhost:%s" % handler.port)
+            info_obj = open_url.info()
+            self.assert_(isinstance(info_obj, mimetools.Message),
+                         "object returned by 'info' is not an instance of "
+                         "mimetools.Message")
+            self.assertEqual(info_obj.getsubtype(), "plain")
+        finally:
+            self.server.stop()
+
+    def test_geturl(self):
+        # Make sure same URL as opened is returned by geturl.
+        handler = self.start_server([(200, [], "we don't care")])
+
+        try:
+            open_url = urllib2.urlopen("http://localhost:%s" % handler.port)
+            url = open_url.geturl()
+            self.assertEqual(url, "http://localhost:%s" % handler.port)
+        finally:
+            self.server.stop()
+
+
+    def test_bad_address(self):
+        # Make sure proper exception is raised when connecting to a bogus
+        # address.
+        self.assertRaises(IOError,
+                          # SF patch 809915:  In Sep 2003, VeriSign started
+                          # highjacking invalid .com and .net addresses to
+                          # boost traffic to their own site.  This test
+                          # started failing then.  One hopes the .invalid
+                          # domain will be spared to serve its defined
+                          # purpose.
+                          # urllib2.urlopen, "http://www.sadflkjsasadf.com/")
+                          urllib2.urlopen, "http://www.python.invalid./")
+
+
 def test_main():
     # We will NOT depend on the network resource flag
     # (Lib/test/regrtest.py -u network) since all tests here are only
@@ -286,6 +485,7 @@
     #test_support.requires("network")
 
     test_support.run_unittest(ProxyAuthTests)
+    test_support.run_unittest(TestUrlopen)
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     test_main()
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py
index 3329822..1ebaf8f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py
@@ -24,20 +24,6 @@
     raise last_exc
 
 
-class URLTimeoutTest(unittest.TestCase):
-
-    TIMEOUT = 10.0
-
-    def setUp(self):
-        socket.setdefaulttimeout(self.TIMEOUT)
-
-    def tearDown(self):
-        socket.setdefaulttimeout(None)
-
-    def testURLread(self):
-        f = _urlopen_with_retry("http://www.python.org/")
-        x = f.read()
-
 
 class AuthTests(unittest.TestCase):
     """Tests urllib2 authentication features."""
@@ -99,68 +85,6 @@
         response.close()
         self.assert_(fileobject.closed)
 
-class urlopenNetworkTests(unittest.TestCase):
-    """Tests urllib2.urlopen using the network.
-
-    These tests are not exhaustive.  Assuming that testing using files does a
-    good job overall of some of the basic interface features.  There are no
-    tests exercising the optional 'data' and 'proxies' arguments.  No tests
-    for transparent redirection have been written.
-
-    setUp is not used for always constructing a connection to
-    http://www.python.org/ since there a few tests that don't use that address
-    and making a connection is expensive enough to warrant minimizing unneeded
-    connections.
-
-    """
-
-    def test_basic(self):
-        # Simple test expected to pass.
-        open_url = _urlopen_with_retry("http://www.python.org/")
-        for attr in ("read", "close", "info", "geturl"):
-            self.assert_(hasattr(open_url, attr), "object returned from "
-                            "urlopen lacks the %s attribute" % attr)
-        try:
-            self.assert_(open_url.read(), "calling 'read' failed")
-        finally:
-            open_url.close()
-
-    def test_info(self):
-        # Test 'info'.
-        open_url = _urlopen_with_retry("http://www.python.org/")
-        try:
-            info_obj = open_url.info()
-        finally:
-            open_url.close()
-            self.assert_(isinstance(info_obj, mimetools.Message),
-                         "object returned by 'info' is not an instance of "
-                         "mimetools.Message")
-            self.assertEqual(info_obj.getsubtype(), "html")
-
-    def test_geturl(self):
-        # Make sure same URL as opened is returned by geturl.
-        URL = "http://www.python.org/"
-        open_url = _urlopen_with_retry(URL)
-        try:
-            gotten_url = open_url.geturl()
-        finally:
-            open_url.close()
-        self.assertEqual(gotten_url, URL)
-
-    def test_bad_address(self):
-        # Make sure proper exception is raised when connecting to a bogus
-        # address.
-        self.assertRaises(IOError,
-                          # SF patch 809915:  In Sep 2003, VeriSign started
-                          # highjacking invalid .com and .net addresses to
-                          # boost traffic to their own site.  This test
-                          # started failing then.  One hopes the .invalid
-                          # domain will be spared to serve its defined
-                          # purpose.
-                          # urllib2.urlopen, "http://www.sadflkjsasadf.com/")
-                          urllib2.urlopen, "http://www.python.invalid./")
-
-
 class OtherNetworkTests(unittest.TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         if 0:  # for debugging
@@ -168,13 +92,6 @@
             logger = logging.getLogger("test_urllib2net")
             logger.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler())
 
-    def test_range (self):
-        req = urllib2.Request("http://www.python.org",
-                              headers={'Range': 'bytes=20-39'})
-        result = _urlopen_with_retry(req)
-        data = result.read()
-        self.assertEqual(len(data), 20)
-
     # XXX The rest of these tests aren't very good -- they don't check much.
     # They do sometimes catch some major disasters, though.
 
@@ -202,16 +119,6 @@
         finally:
             os.remove(TESTFN)
 
-    def test_http(self):
-        urls = [
-            'http://www.espn.com/', # redirect
-            'http://www.python.org/Spanish/Inquistion/',
-            ('http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw.py',
-             'query=pythonistas&querytype=simple&casefold=yes&req=search', None),
-            'http://www.python.org/',
-            ]
-        self._test_urls(urls, self._extra_handlers())
-
     # XXX Following test depends on machine configurations that are internal
     # to CNRI.  Need to set up a public server with the right authentication
     # configuration for test purposes.
@@ -279,6 +186,7 @@
 
         return handlers
 
+
 class TimeoutTest(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_http_basic(self):
         u = _urlopen_with_retry("http://www.python.org")
@@ -327,9 +235,7 @@
 
 def test_main():
     test_support.requires("network")
-    test_support.run_unittest(URLTimeoutTest,
-                              urlopenNetworkTests,
-                              AuthTests,
+    test_support.run_unittest(AuthTests,
                               OtherNetworkTests,
                               CloseSocketTest,
                               TimeoutTest,