Python's httplib does not graciously handle disconnections from the http server, resulting in BadStatusLine errors.
See https://bugs.python.org/issue3566 "httplib persistent connections violate MUST in RFC2616 sec 8.1.4."
This was fixed in Python 3.5.
Work around it for now.
Test prioritisetransaction
After talking with @str4d about #1884 , I wrote a test for prioritisetransaction. It uses small blocks (11kb), and checks whether a transaction makes it into the next block after being prioritized by that node.
Should this be improved with a larger number of txs in the mempool, or by testing over multiple runs?
As for getblocktemplate(), it seems to return the prioritized transaction within the block size set by the node (about 50 txs fit in an 11kb block), but the block "sizelimit" it displays is set at 2 MB in `rpcmining.cpp` line 690:
```
result.push_back(Pair("sizelimit", (int64_t)MAX_BLOCK_SIZE));
```
This was quite confusing, I didn't think the `-blockmaxsize` parameter I was setting was working for awhile.
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