Ooops ... sorry, remove the print statement. The patch is as follows :

{{{
#!diff

--- /usr/lib/python2.5/urllib.py        2008-07-31 13:40:40.000000000 
-0500
+++ /media/urllib_unix.py     2009-01-26 09:48:54.000000000 -0500
@@ -270,6 +270,7 @@
     def open_http(self, url, data=None):
         """Use HTTP protocol."""
         import httplib
+        from urlparse import urlparse
         user_passwd = None
         proxy_passwd= None
         if isinstance(url, str):
@@ -312,12 +313,17 @@
         else:
             auth = None
         h = httplib.HTTP(host)
+        target = ''.join(sep + part for sep, part in \
+                                zip(['', ';', '?', '#'], \
+                                    urlparse(selector)[2:]) \
+                                if part)
         if data is not None:
-            h.putrequest('POST', selector)
+            h.putrequest('POST', target)
             h.putheader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-
urlencoded')
             h.putheader('Content-Length', '%d' % len(data))
         else:
-            h.putrequest('GET', selector)
+            h.putrequest('GET', target)
         if proxy_auth: h.putheader('Proxy-Authorization', 'Basic %s' % 
proxy_auth)
         if auth: h.putheader('Authorization', 'Basic %s' % auth)
         if realhost: h.putheader('Host', realhost)


}}}

I apologize once again ...