avoid weird bug when conn is not really established

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/webtest/http.py b/webtest/http.py
index 90959ec..890ef96 100644
--- a/webtest/http.py
+++ b/webtest/http.py
@@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ def check_server(host, port, path_info='/', timeout=3, retries=30):
     """Perform a request until the server reply"""
     if retries < 0:
         return 0
-    conn = http_client.HTTPConnection(host, port, timeout=timeout)
     time.sleep(.3)
     for i in range(retries):
         try:
+            conn = http_client.HTTPConnection(host, int(port), timeout=timeout)
             conn.request('GET', path_info)
             res = conn.getresponse()
             return res.status