add-apt-repository crashed with URLError in do_open(): <urlopen error [Errno 8] _ssl.c:503: EOF occurred in violation of protocol>

[zombiepig]

Error randomly appeared while using software centre.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: python-software-properties 0.81.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.14-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Aug 26 17:07:33 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/add-apt-repository
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110803.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/add-apt-repository ppa:unity-team/compiz-testing
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/add-apt-repository', 'ppa:unity-team/compiz-testing']
SourcePackage: software-properties
Title: add-apt-repository crashed with URLError in do_open(): <urlopen error [Errno 8] _ssl.c:503: EOF occurred in violation of protocol>
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-25 (5 days ago)
UserGroups:

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

The code has changed from url_open() to using pyCurl. Bug 861258 is the corresponding crash when the URL cannot be loaded.