Connection() hangs on Windows XP

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Which version of amqplib are you using?
0.6.0, 0.6.1, hg commit 174:aa7a2b480166

Which broker are you using (RabbitMQ?) which version?
QPid 0.6 (Java version)

Which version of Python?
2.6.4 (distributed by python.org), 2.6.5 (distributed by Cygwin)

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Start Qpid using default plain-text passwd file. 
2. Run this python code:
    from amqplib import client_0_8 as amqp
    amqp.Connection()

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect the Connection constructor to return. It never returns. Past issues 
suggest this was fixed between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1. I confirmed that this works on 
my linux machine. On Windows XP it still hangs.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 18 Nov 2010 at 11:14