Add tests/test_httpserver.py

which contains a test for the issue in BB-4, where the WSGI environment has
strings with commas in them that don't belong.

See issue #4.

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diff --git a/paste/util/killthread.py b/paste/util/killthread.py
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+"""
+Kill a thread, from http://sebulba.wikispaces.com/recipe+thread2
+"""
+import six
+try:
+    import ctypes
+except ImportError:
+    raise ImportError(
+        "You cannot use paste.util.killthread without ctypes installed")
+if not hasattr(ctypes, 'pythonapi'):
+    raise ImportError(
+        "You cannot use paste.util.killthread without ctypes.pythonapi")
+
+def async_raise(tid, exctype):
+    """raises the exception, performs cleanup if needed.
+
+    tid is the value given by thread.get_ident() (an integer).
+    Raise SystemExit to kill a thread."""
+    if not isinstance(exctype, (six.class_types, type)):
+        raise TypeError("Only types can be raised (not instances)")
+    if not isinstance(tid, int):
+        raise TypeError("tid must be an integer")
+    res = ctypes.pythonapi.PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc(ctypes.c_long(tid), ctypes.py_object(exctype))
+    if res == 0:
+        raise ValueError("invalid thread id")
+    elif res != 1:
+        # """if it returns a number greater than one, you're in trouble,
+        # and you should call it again with exc=NULL to revert the effect"""
+        ctypes.pythonapi.PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc(ctypes.c_long(tid), 0)
+        raise SystemError("PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc failed")