urllib2 and SSL

[rbt]

urllib2 handles https request flawlessly on my Linux machines, but errors out on
Windows like this:

PythonWin 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 09:34:21) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32.
Portions Copyright 1994-2004 Mark Hammond (mh******@skippinet.com.au) - see
'Help/About PythonWin' for further copyright information.
working_0...
<urlopen error unknown url type: https>
working_2...
<urlopen error unknown url type: https>

Is SSL not supported on win32?

[flamesrock]

don't you need to install openSSL?

I'm not sure.

[rbt]

flamesrock wrote:

don't you need to install openSSL?

I'm not sure.

How does IE and Firefox handle SSL??? I didn't install anything for them
to work.

[rbt]

flamesrock wrote:

don't you need to install openSSL?

I'm not sure.

I don't understand why, but that fixes it. I used the OpenSSL binary
from here: http://www.openssl.org/related/binaries.html

Thanks for the tip... how *does* all of the other Win32 apps handle SSl
w/o installing OpenSSL? Do they bundle it and only use it for
themselves? That seems foolish.

[Paul Rubin]

rbt <rb*@athop1.ath.vt.edu> writes:

Thanks for the tip... how *does* all of the other Win32 apps handle
SSl w/o installing OpenSSL? Do they bundle it and only use it for
themselves? That seems foolish.

Mozilla has its own SSL stack. IE uses one built into wininet, I think.