unhandled exception leading to crash

[igable]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/igable/librato-scripts/bin/librato-imap", line 7, in <module>
    execfile(__file__)
  File "/home/igable/librato-scripts/librato-scripts/librato-imap", line 95, in <module>
    pushmessages(username,password, imap_server,librato_user,api_key, bequiet)
  File "/home/igable/librato-scripts/librato-scripts/librato-imap", line 51, in pushmessages
    gauge = connection.create_gauge('unread_email',description='Unread Email')
  File "/home/igable/librato-scripts/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/librato/__init__.py", line 137, in create_gauge
    resp = self._mexe("gauges.json", method="POST", query_props=query_props)
  File "/home/igable/librato-scripts/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/librato/__init__.py", line 81, in _mexe
    resp = conn.getresponse()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1027, in getresponse
    response.begin()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 407, in begin
    version, status, reason = self._read_status()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 371, in _read_status
    raise BadStatusLine(line)
httplib.BadStatusLine: ''