Hi Dann, sorry for the delay: I haven't been able to keep up with this problem in the past few weeks. Anyway, here is the last post regarding this bug in exaile's BTS (in case you haven't followed it):
03/02/07 08:52:56 by sjohannes
dann frazier wrote in the Debian BTS that this does not work. I've just noticed that the traceback indicates the failing code uses httplib, not urllib. Not sure how to fix this.
I fear this problem is more serious than I first thought. I will try to look for a solution to it when I have time (although I don't promise you much since I'm a bit out of schedule these days). Cheers, François