Respect "Connection: close" headers sent by HTTP clients. A HTTP client can indicate that it doesn't support (or doesn't want) persistent connections by sending this header. This not only makes the server more compliant with the RFC, but also reduces the run time of test-http-proxy when run with python 2.3 from ~125s to ~5s (it doesn't affect it with python 2.4, which was already ~5s).

to build a new macosx binary package:

install macpython from http://www.python.org/download/mac

install py2app from http://pythonmac.org/packages/

make sure /usr/local/bin is in your path

run bdist_mpkg in top-level hg directory

find packaged stuff in dist directory