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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:31:20 -0700, "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ > (Bestiaria Support Staff: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > HTTP://www.bestiaria.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list