The code in HTTP(httplib.HTTP):getreply is out of date with changes 
(a long time ago) to the Python standard library httplib at line 33:
self.sock should be self._conn.sock.

Also there is a really ugly assumption in Resource:put that filesnames are
7-bit ASCII which is not true on modern filesystems: they could be latin1 or utf-8
for example. The assumption is that if the thing given to the first argument of put
matches isbin=re.compile(r'[\000-\006\177-\277]') then it's a string to be put,
otherwise it calls os.stat on what could be a very large string full of binary
to see if it's a filename to be opened and read.

I think this method should be deprecated, and 2 new methods putFile and putString
should replace it without the binary assumption code, even if it means changing all
of the code that calls this method (probably not many).


*** lib/python/webdav/client.py.orig	2004-05-11 21:34:59.000000000 +0100
--- lib/python/webdav/client.py	2007-02-14 12:52:35.000000000 +0000
***************
*** 30,35 ****
--- 30,37 ----
          self.send(str)
  
      def getreply(self):
+         if not hasattr(self, 'sock'):
+             self.sock=self._conn.sock
          file=self.sock.makefile('rb')
          data=''.join(file.readlines())
          file.close()