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I'm trying to use urllib to retrieve an https page but I am
getting an "unknown url type: https"

It seems that ActiveState Python doesn't have SSL support.
Any advice?

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:31:20 -0700, "Jack" <>
declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:

> I'm trying to use urllib to retrieve an https page but I am
> getting an "unknown url type: https"
>
> It seems that ActiveState Python doesn't have SSL support.
> Any advice?
>

I've not tried, but it may be that the "regular" Python (of the same
language level) may have SSL as a DLL/PYD & .py set and you could just
copy them into the ActiveState install directory...
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Thanks for the reply.

I found some openSSL patches for earlier versions of ActiveState Python.
It involves .pyd files and they look for earlier versions of Python DLLs and
don't
run on ActiveState Python 2.4. I suspect the regular Python solution would
have the same problem or even more problems because it's not a pure .py
patch.

"Dennis Lee Bieber" <> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:31:20 -0700, "Jack" <>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
>> I'm trying to use urllib to retrieve an https page but I am
>> getting an "unknown url type: https"
>>
>> It seems that ActiveState Python doesn't have SSL support.
>> Any advice?
>>
>
> I've not tried, but it may be that the "regular" Python (of the same
> language level) may have SSL as a DLL/PYD & .py set and you could just
> copy them into the ActiveState install directory...
> --
> Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG
>
> HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
> (Bestiaria Support Staff: web-)
> HTTP://www.bestiaria.com/

Jack wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I found some openSSL patches for earlier versions of ActiveState Python.
> It involves .pyd files and they look for earlier versions of Python DLLs and
> don't run on ActiveState Python 2.4. I suspect the regular Python solution would
> have the same problem or even more problems because it's not a pure .py
> patch.

huh? the "regular Python solution" ships with a perfectly working SSL
library (in DLLs/_ssl.pyd), which look for the appropriate version of
the Python DLL:

> dumpbin /imports "\python24\DLLs\_ssl.pyd"
Microsoft (R) COFF Binary File Dumper Version 6.00.8168
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1992-1998. All rights reserved.

Dump of file \python24\DLLs\_ssl.pyd

File Type: DLL

Section contains the following imports:

WSOCK32.dll
...
python24.dll
...

(what's the point in using ActiveState's crippled distribution if you
need stuff that's shipped with the standard distro, btw? why not just
use the standard version, and install win32all on top of that?)

</F>

Thanks Dennis and Fredrik. This actualy works! I just copyed _socket.pyd and
_ssl.pyd
from regular Python 2.4.3 into the DLLs directory of the ActiveState Python
installation.
urllib2.urlopen() starts working for https links

I copied ssleay32.dll and libeay32.dll earlier.

"Fredrik Lundh" <> wrote in message
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> Jack wrote:
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>> I found some openSSL patches for earlier versions of ActiveState Python.
>> It involves .pyd files and they look for earlier versions of Python DLLs
>> and don't run on ActiveState Python 2.4. I suspect the regular Python
>> solution would
>> have the same problem or even more problems because it's not a pure .py
>> patch.
>
> huh? the "regular Python solution" ships with a perfectly working SSL
> library (in DLLs/_ssl.pyd), which look for the appropriate version of the
> Python DLL:
>
> > dumpbin /imports "\python24\DLLs\_ssl.pyd"
> Microsoft (R) COFF Binary File Dumper Version 6.00.8168
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1992-1998. All rights reserved.
>
> Dump of file \python24\DLLs\_ssl.pyd
>
> File Type: DLL
>
> Section contains the following imports:
>
> WSOCK32.dll
> ...
> python24.dll
> ...
>
> (what's the point in using ActiveState's crippled distribution if you need
> stuff that's shipped with the standard distro, btw? why not just use the
> standard version, and install win32all on top of that?)
>
> </F>
>