Comment 90 for bug 522538

kitallis tells me he has the same problem as https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/gwibber/+bug/523964 - which is marked as duplicate of this problem. I had him run python -d gwibber and he gets this ewrror log http://pastie.org/private/bzlwxgrvth1mx6r2mzdkqg
-- there's a connection refuse error that is causing the socket object not to be set up .. then it passes a nul object and falls next the tipical error:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 330, in __init__
    self.fp = sock.makefile('rb', 0)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'makefile'