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Note that lazy importing can interact very badly with 
threads.

Why did you change the signature of OpenenDirector._open?  
The base class ignores the data, but subclasses may not.

Removing the SSL guard "if hasattr(httplib, 'HTTPS')" is 
questionable, since the ssl library is external and must be 
compiled separately, and therefore may not exist on some 
platforms even without other source customizations.