Can not connect to school server

[erikos]

There are two issues to this:

- traceback:  OLPC 10776 (Python 2.7 switched from using httplib.HTTP to using httplib.HTTPConnection)

- no feedback:  OLPC 10678 (introduced by #1742)

[erikos]

a) cache the palette

[erikos]

b) don't cache the palette

[erikos]

Diagnosis of the no feedback issue:

Since we  do not cache the palette for the BuddyIcon anymore, we do not cache the Owner palette in the Favorites view anymore. The current code wants to change the register menu in the palette when successfully registered to 'register again'. But the palette has been destroyed and therefore this attempt fails.

2 Possible solutions:

We could just cache the palette of the Owner (patch a) as it has been before. The second patch (b) does not cache the palette and rely on the create_palette method to setup the palette accordingly on popup.

Preference:

As registering (and therefore the change of the palette) happens rather seldom compared to the change of a buddy palette in the neighborhood view I would vote for patch (a). I think the Owner palette can be considered to be mostly static and therefore we can cache it.

[erikos]

0.92:  http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar/mainline/commit/df9c0aeb9f064282a566bac7a26240066fe2291f

master:  http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar/mainline/commit/fd0d8cc59d363a0ecfe23862fdb5c03f0030ddb4