-# python 2.7 xmlrpclib has changed its internal code
-# it now calls 'getresponse' on the obj returned by make_connection
-# while it used to call 'getreply'
-# regardless of the version, httplib.HTTPS does implement getreply,
-# while httplib.HTTPSConnection has getresponse
-# so we create a dummy instance to check what's expected
-need_HTTPSConnection=hasattr(xmlrpclib.Transport().make_connection('localhost'),'getresponse')