> Actually, the SSL certificate has to be in valid format, because > OpenSSL does require that.
Sure. However, in the first message, the OP mentioned that he gets error 503. That tells me that the SSL connection had been established successfully, and that he was actually seeing a HTTP error, not an SSL one (unless he made up that error code, of course). Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list