Cannot upload to s3 in 0.1.12

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In my code I have the two lines below. My code has been working fine with versions <= 0.1.11 The code fails on the upload with version 0.1.12 The error raised is below.

c = tinys3.Connection(...)
c.upload(...)

conn.upload(key, uploadFile, bucketpath)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tinys3-0.1.12-py2.7.egg/tinys3/connection.py", line 171, in upload
return self.run(r)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tinys3-0.1.12-py2.7.egg/tinys3/connection.py", line 262, in run
return self._handle_request(request)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tinys3-0.1.12-py2.7.egg/tinys3/connection.py", line 356, in _handle_request
return request.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tinys3-0.1.12-py2.7.egg/tinys3/request_factory.py", line 346, in run
auth=self.auth)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.11.1-py2.7.egg/requests/api.py", line 123, in put
return request('put', url, data=data, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.11.1-py2.7.egg/requests/api.py", line 56, in request
return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.11.1-py2.7.egg/requests/sessions.py", line 475, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.11.1-py2.7.egg/requests/sessions.py", line 596, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.11.1-py2.7.egg/requests/adapters.py", line 473, in send
raise ConnectionError(err, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', BadStatusLine("''",))