diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
index 7f52564..e2d4fc0 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@
 
 *Release date: XX-XXX-2004*
 
+- rpc.py:SocketIO - Large modules were generating large pickles when downloaded
+  to the execution server.  The return of the OK response from the subprocess
+  initialization was interfering and causing the sending socket to be not
+  ready.  Add an IO ready test to fix this.  Moved the polling IO ready test
+  into pollpacket().
+
+- Fix typo in rpc.py, s/b "pickle.PicklingError" not "pickle.UnpicklingError".
+
 - Added a Tk error dialog to run.py inform the user if the subprocess can't
   connect to the user GUI process.  Added a timeout to the GUI's listening
   socket.  Added Tk error dialogs to PyShell.py to announce a failure to bind
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/rpc.py b/Lib/idlelib/rpc.py
index 90451e3..d3a9fd8 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/rpc.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/rpc.py
@@ -320,23 +320,20 @@
         self.debug("putmessage:%d:" % message[0])
         try:
             s = pickle.dumps(message)
-        except pickle.UnpicklingError:
+        except pickle.PicklingError:
             print >>sys.__stderr__, "Cannot pickle:", `message`
             raise
         s = struct.pack("<i", len(s)) + s
         while len(s) > 0:
             try:
-                n = self.sock.send(s)
+                r, w, x = select.select([], [self.sock], [])
+                n = self.sock.send(s[:BUFSIZE])
             except (AttributeError, socket.error):
                 # socket was closed
                 raise IOError
             else:
                 s = s[n:]
 
-    def ioready(self, wait):
-        r, w, x = select.select([self.sock.fileno()], [], [], wait)
-        return len(r)
-
     buffer = ""
     bufneed = 4
     bufstate = 0 # meaning: 0 => reading count; 1 => reading data
@@ -344,7 +341,8 @@
     def pollpacket(self, wait):
         self._stage0()
         if len(self.buffer) < self.bufneed:
-            if not self.ioready(wait):
+            r, w, x = select.select([self.sock.fileno()], [], [], wait)
+            if len(r) == 0:
                 return None
             try:
                 s = self.sock.recv(BUFSIZE)
@@ -377,7 +375,7 @@
             return None
         try:
             message = pickle.loads(packet)
-        except:
+        except pickle.UnpicklingError:
             print >>sys.__stderr__, "-----------------------"
             print >>sys.__stderr__, "cannot unpickle packet:", `packet`
             traceback.print_stack(file=sys.__stderr__)