diff --git a/Lib/xmlrpclib.py b/Lib/xmlrpclib.py
index da3fb5a91cc..a712a644538 100644
--- a/Lib/xmlrpclib.py
+++ b/Lib/xmlrpclib.py
@@ -1256,7 +1256,7 @@ def request(self, host, handler, request_body, verbose=0):
             except socket.error, e:
                 if i or e.errno not in (errno.ECONNRESET, errno.ECONNABORTED):
                     raise
-            except http.client.BadStatusLine: #close after we sent request
+            except httplib.BadStatusLine: #close after we sent request
                 if i:
                     raise