Freeloader exceptation

[psl]

Binary package hint: freeloader

Ubuntu 6.06, freeloader 0.3; Sometimes I get this exception:

oem@duran$ freeloader
Exception in thread Thread-7:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/threading.py", line 442, in __bootstrap
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/threading.py", line 422, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/BitTorrent/Rerequester.py", line 84, in rerequest
    h = urlopen(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 130, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 358, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 376, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 337, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/BitTorrent/zurllib.py", line 33, in http_open
    fp = HTTPHandler.http_open(self,req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 1021, in http_open
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 994, in do_open
    r = h.getresponse()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 866, in getresponse
    response.begin()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 336, in begin
    version, status, reason = self._read_status()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 300, in _read_status
    raise BadStatusLine(line)
BadStatusLine

[Paul O'Malley (ompaul-deactivatedaccount)]

dupe of 55934

[psl (slansky)]

Similar to bug #55408. Problem in Python library?