+# 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')
+