Index: CPythonLib/httplib.py
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--- CPythonLib/httplib.py	(revision 70085)
+++ CPythonLib/httplib.py	(working copy)
@@ -663,7 +663,13 @@
     def connect(self):
         """Connect to the host and port specified in __init__."""
         msg = "getaddrinfo returns an empty list"
-        for res in socket.getaddrinfo(self.host, self.port, 0,
+        
+        # When we eventually support IPv6 (aka AF_INET6) this needs to be
+        # changed to 
+        # for res in socket.getaddrinfo(self.host, self.port, socket.AF_UNSPEC,
+        #                              socket.SOCK_STREAM):
+
+        for res in socket.getaddrinfo(self.host, self.port, socket.AF_INET,
                                       socket.SOCK_STREAM):
             af, socktype, proto, canonname, sa = res
             try: