This is the output that occurs about 1 in 500 hits to any 
particular URL. I've only seen it so far hitting servers 
running Apache 1.3.20, but I don't have enough data to 
limit it to that.

Python 2.1.2 (#1, Mar 16 2002, 18:24:08)
[GCC 2.95.3 [FreeBSD] 20010315 (release)] on freebsd4

h = httplib.HTTPConnection(host)
response = h.getresponse()
data = response.read()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/httplib.py", line 246, in read
value = value + self._safe_read(chunk_left)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/httplib.py", line 314, in 
_safe_read
chunk = self.fp.read(amt)
TypeError: an integer is required