diff --git a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
index 8d527c3..ce561f4 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@
 # The evt is set twice.  First when the server is ready to serve.
 # Second when the server has been shutdown.  The user must clear
 # the event after it has been set the first time to catch the second set.
-def http_server(evt, numrequests):
+def http_server(evt, numrequests, requestHandler=None):
     class TestInstanceClass:
         def div(self, x, y):
             return x // y
@@ -294,7 +294,9 @@
             s.setblocking(True)
             return s, port
 
-    serv = MyXMLRPCServer(("localhost", 0),
+    if not requestHandler:
+        requestHandler = SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler
+    serv = MyXMLRPCServer(("localhost", 0), requestHandler,
                           logRequests=False, bind_and_activate=False)
     try:
         serv.socket.settimeout(3)
@@ -348,34 +350,36 @@
 
     return False
 
-# NOTE: The tests in SimpleServerTestCase will ignore failures caused by
-# "temporarily unavailable" exceptions raised in SimpleXMLRPCServer.  This
-# condition occurs infrequently on some platforms, frequently on others, and
-# is apparently caused by using SimpleXMLRPCServer with a non-blocking socket.
-# If the server class is updated at some point in the future to handle this
-# situation more gracefully, these tests should be modified appropriately.
-
-class SimpleServerTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+class BaseServerTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+    requestHandler = None
     def setUp(self):
         # enable traceback reporting
         SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer._send_traceback_header = True
 
         self.evt = threading.Event()
         # start server thread to handle requests
-        serv_args = (self.evt, 1)
+        serv_args = (self.evt, 1, self.requestHandler)
         threading.Thread(target=http_server, args=serv_args).start()
 
         # wait for the server to be ready
-        self.evt.wait()
+        self.evt.wait(10)
         self.evt.clear()
 
     def tearDown(self):
         # wait on the server thread to terminate
-        self.evt.wait()
+        self.evt.wait(10)
 
         # disable traceback reporting
         SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer._send_traceback_header = False
 
+# NOTE: The tests in SimpleServerTestCase will ignore failures caused by
+# "temporarily unavailable" exceptions raised in SimpleXMLRPCServer.  This
+# condition occurs infrequently on some platforms, frequently on others, and
+# is apparently caused by using SimpleXMLRPCServer with a non-blocking socket
+# If the server class is updated at some point in the future to handle this
+# situation more gracefully, these tests should be modified appropriately.
+
+class SimpleServerTestCase(BaseServerTestCase):
     def test_simple1(self):
         try:
             p = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(URL)
@@ -512,6 +516,110 @@
         # This avoids waiting for the socket timeout.
         self.test_simple1()
 
+#A test case that verifies that a server using the HTTP/1.1 keep-alive mechanism
+#does indeed serve subsequent requests on the same connection
+class KeepaliveServerTestCase(BaseServerTestCase):
+    #a request handler that supports keep-alive and logs requests into a
+    #class variable
+    class RequestHandler(SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler):
+        parentClass = SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler
+        protocol_version = 'HTTP/1.1'
+        myRequests = []
+        def handle(self):
+            self.myRequests.append([])
+            return self.parentClass.handle(self)
+        def handle_one_request(self):
+            result = self.parentClass.handle_one_request(self)
+            self.myRequests[-1].append(self.raw_requestline)
+            return result
+
+    requestHandler = RequestHandler
+    def setUp(self):
+        #clear request log
+        self.RequestHandler.myRequests = []
+        return BaseServerTestCase.setUp(self)
+
+    def test_two(self):
+        p = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(URL)
+        self.assertEqual(p.pow(6,8), 6**8)
+        self.assertEqual(p.pow(6,8), 6**8)
+        self.assertEqual(len(self.RequestHandler.myRequests), 1)
+        #we may or may not catch the final "append" with the empty line
+        self.assertTrue(len(self.RequestHandler.myRequests[-1]) >= 2)
+
+#A test case that verifies that gzip encoding works in both directions
+#(for a request and the response)
+class GzipServerTestCase(BaseServerTestCase):
+    #a request handler that supports keep-alive and logs requests into a
+    #class variable
+    class RequestHandler(SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler):
+        parentClass = SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler
+        protocol_version = 'HTTP/1.1'
+
+        def do_POST(self):
+            #store content of last request in class
+            self.__class__.content_length = int(self.headers["content-length"])
+            return self.parentClass.do_POST(self)
+    requestHandler = RequestHandler
+
+    class Transport(xmlrpclib.Transport):
+        #custom transport, stores the response length for our perusal
+        fake_gzip = False
+        def parse_response(self, response):
+            self.response_length=int(response.getheader("content-length", 0))
+            return xmlrpclib.Transport.parse_response(self, response)
+
+        def send_content(self, connection, body):
+            if self.fake_gzip:
+                #add a lone gzip header to induce decode error remotely
+                connection.putheader("Content-Encoding", "gzip")
+            return xmlrpclib.Transport.send_content(self, connection, body)
+
+    def test_gzip_request(self):
+        t = self.Transport()
+        t.encode_threshold = None
+        p = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(URL, transport=t)
+        self.assertEqual(p.pow(6,8), 6**8)
+        a = self.RequestHandler.content_length
+        t.encode_threshold = 0 #turn on request encoding
+        self.assertEqual(p.pow(6,8), 6**8)
+        b = self.RequestHandler.content_length
+        self.assertTrue(a>b)
+
+    def test_bad_gzip_request(self):
+        t = self.Transport()
+        t.encode_threshold = None
+        t.fake_gzip = True
+        p = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(URL, transport=t)
+        cm = self.assertRaisesRegexp(xmlrpclib.ProtocolError,
+                                     re.compile(r"\b400\b"))
+        with cm:
+            p.pow(6, 8)
+
+    def test_gsip_response(self):
+        t = self.Transport()
+        p = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(URL, transport=t)
+        old = self.requestHandler.encode_threshold
+        self.requestHandler.encode_threshold = None #no encoding
+        self.assertEqual(p.pow(6,8), 6**8)
+        a = t.response_length
+        self.requestHandler.encode_threshold = 0 #always encode
+        self.assertEqual(p.pow(6,8), 6**8)
+        b = t.response_length
+        self.requestHandler.encode_threshold = old
+        self.assertTrue(a>b)
+
+#Test special attributes of the ServerProxy object
+class ServerProxyTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_close(self):
+        p = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(URL)
+        self.assertEqual(p('close')(), None)
+
+    def test_transport(self):
+        t = xmlrpclib.Transport()
+        p = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(URL, transport=t)
+        self.assertEqual(p('transport'), t)
+
 # This is a contrived way to make a failure occur on the server side
 # in order to test the _send_traceback_header flag on the server
 class FailingMessageClass(mimetools.Message):
@@ -693,6 +801,9 @@
     def makefile(self, x='r', y=-1):
         raise RuntimeError
 
+    def close(self):
+        pass
+
 class FakeTransport(xmlrpclib.Transport):
     """A Transport instance that records instead of sending a request.
 
@@ -703,7 +814,7 @@
 
     def make_connection(self, host):
         conn = xmlrpclib.Transport.make_connection(self, host)
-        conn._conn.sock = self.fake_socket = FakeSocket()
+        conn.sock = self.fake_socket = FakeSocket()
         return conn
 
 class TransportSubclassTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -763,6 +874,9 @@
     xmlrpc_tests = [XMLRPCTestCase, HelperTestCase, DateTimeTestCase,
          BinaryTestCase, FaultTestCase, TransportSubclassTestCase]
     xmlrpc_tests.append(SimpleServerTestCase)
+    xmlrpc_tests.append(KeepaliveServerTestCase)
+    xmlrpc_tests.append(GzipServerTestCase)
+    xmlrpc_tests.append(ServerProxyTestCase)
     xmlrpc_tests.append(FailingServerTestCase)
     xmlrpc_tests.append(CGIHandlerTestCase)