Yes, I agree with you, R. David Murray.

But there are some reasons why I try to resurrect this dormant test:

1. This test was disabled on 19 January 2008.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/859bf85a556a

It has been more than 5 years. Many things happened.

2. In the last commit about this test, they used httplib not http library to access the server. If you see this commit:
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/5756b295b6fb

, the intuition (at least my intuition) suggests that the similar way can be applied to the dormant test. This commit is in 2012.

3. The http server in the test_xmlrpc.py differs than the http server 5 years ago.

But again, you are maybe right.

So let's hear from the person who disabled this test. Christian Heimes, what do you say about this ticket?