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errors: catch urllib errors specifically instead of using safehasattr()

Before this patch, we would catch `IOError` and `OSError` and check if
the instance had a `.code` member (indicates `HTTPError`) or a
`.reason` member (indicates the more generic `URLError`). It seems to
me that can simply catch those exception specifically instead, so
that's what this code does. The existing code is from fbe8834923c5
(commands: report http exceptions nicely, 2005-06-17), so I suspect
it's just that there was no `urllib2` (where `URLError` lives) back
then.

The old code mentioned `SSLError` in a comment. The new code does
*not* try to catch that. The documentation for `ssl.SSLError` says
that it has a `.reason` property, but `python -c 'import ssl;
print(dir(ssl.SSLError("foo", Exception("bar"))))` doesn't mention
that property on either Python 2 or Python 3 on my system. It also
seems that `sslutil` is pretty careful about converting `ssl.SSLError`
to `error.Abort`. It also is carefult to not assume that instances of
the exception have a `.reason`. So I at least don't want to catch
`ssl.SSLError` and handle it the same way as `URLError` because that
would likely result in a crash. I also wonder if we don't need to
handle it at all (because `sslutil` might handle all the cases). It's
now early in the release cycle, so perhaps we can just see how it
goes?

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D9318

[This file is here for historical purposes, all recent contributors
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Andrea Arcangeli <andrea at suse.de>
Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>
Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack at libero.it>
Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix at mulix.org>
Mikael Berthe <mikael at lilotux.net>
Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com>
Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com>
Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>
Jake Edge <jake at edge2.net>
Michael Fetterman <michael.fetterman at intel.com>
Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr>
Eric Hopper <hopper at omnifarious.org>
Alecs King <alecsk at gmail.com>
Volker Kleinfeld <Volker.Kleinfeld at gmx.de>
Vadim Lebedev <vadim at mbdsys.com>
Christopher Li <hg at chrisli.org>
Chris Mason <mason at suse.com>
Colin McMillen <mcmillen at cs.cmu.edu>
Wojciech Milkowski <wmilkowski at interia.pl>
Chad Netzer <chad.netzer at gmail.com>
Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>
Vicent Seguí Pascual <vseguip at gmail.com>
Sean Perry <shaleh at speakeasy.net>
Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh at gmail.com>
Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr>
Alexander Schremmer <alex at alexanderweb.de>
Arun Sharma <arun at sharma-home.net>
Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jeffpc at optonline.net>
Kevin Smith <yarcs at qualitycode.com>
TK Soh <teekaysoh at yahoo.com>
Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm at gorzow.mm.pl>
Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149.net>
K Thananchayan <thananck at yahoo.com>
Andrew Thompson <andrewkt at aktzero.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>
Rafael Villar Burke <pachi at mmn-arquitectos.com>
Tristan Wibberley <tristan at wibberley.org>
Mark Williamson <mark.williamson at cl.cam.ac.uk>