Message6324

Due to this bug, code trying to handle connection problems by catching socket.error doesn't work because AssertionError is risen instead. An example code affected by this problem is below:

while time.time() < MAX_TIME:
    try:
        conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('localhost', 8080)
    except socket.error:
        time.sleep(2)

In our code we worked around this by replacing `except socket.error` with `except (socket.error, AssertionError)`.