gistfile1.py

class ThreadedRequest(threading.Thread):

    def __init__(self, url, data):
        super(ThreadedRequest, self).__init__()
        self.url = url
        self.data = data

    @log_error
    def run(self):
        response = urllib.urlopen(self.url, self.data)
        response.read()
        #response = requests.post(self.url, data=self.data)
        #response.raise_for_status()

http://bugs.python.org/file31201/issue1424152-py27-urllib.diff

errbit 1.1.0 does now support urllib, urllib2 and requests (default).
The implementation can be set with the environment variable ERRBIT_HTTP_CLIENT.