Improved exception handling across httplib versions

lib/htlogr.py

@@ -57,10 +57,19 @@ class htlogr:
         params = {"msg": msg, "tag": tag, "i": i}
         pq = "%s?%s" % (self.parsed_url.path, self._zipup_params(params))
         self.conn.request("GET", pq)
-        r = self.conn.getresponse()
-        assert r.status == 200, ("logging server returned error %s,"
-                                 "message not logged" % r.status)
-        return r.read()
+        return_msg = None
+        try:
+            r = self.conn.getresponse()
+            assert r.status == 200, ("logging server returned error %s,"
+                                     "message not logged" % r.status)
+            return_msg = r.read()
+        except httplib.BadStatusLine as e:
+            return_msg = ("httplib does not like thie line:\n\n    %s"
+                          % e.line)
+        except:
+            return_msg = ("something bad happened. We don't know what"
+                          " but we know it's bad")
+        return return_msg
 
     def data(self, data, tag=None, i=None):
         assert isinstance(data, dict), "data must be dict"