The Transport class in xmlrpclib.py was using the old httplib.HTTP 
class.
This patch brings xmlrpclib up to date to use the HTTPConnection and 
HTTPSConnection classes.  This allows xlmrpclib.ServerProxy to use 
HTTP/1.1 with keep-alive on
servers that support it.

Note that this patch benefits from recent optimizations of 
HTTPConnection reducing the Nagle problem.

This is a separate patch from http://bugs.python.org/issue1767370 and in 
my opinion much simpler.
See also 
http://bugs.python.org/issue2076

Patch uploaded as http://codereview.appspot.com/63144

I attach another patch, keepalive.patch, which includes the fixes from http://bugs.python.org/issue6096 and including a test for the keepalive 
mecahinsm in the test suite.

Updated http://codereview.appspot.com/63144

It turns out we need to deal with exceptions and clear the cached 
HTTPConnection if they happen.
Also, we just deal with a ECONNRESET which can happen if there is a long 
delay between requests, and retry the request once in that case.  New 
patch uploaded.

Superseded by issue6267.