diff -r 9a93f4fb141b -r ca5fd84d62c6 mercurial/url.py
--- a/mercurial/url.py	Wed Sep 22 19:15:27 2010 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/url.py	Thu Sep 23 11:41:27 2010 +0200
@@ -469,9 +469,6 @@
         _generic_start_transaction(self, h, req)
         return keepalive.HTTPHandler._start_transaction(self, h, req)
 
-    def __del__(self):
-        self.close_all()
-
 if has_https:
     class BetterHTTPS(httplib.HTTPSConnection):
         send = keepalive.safesend