httplib drops ssl connection to MS IIS Server

[Jon Ribbens]

In article <mailman.1018741166.19994.python-list at python.org>, Marco Caamano wrote:
> socket.sslerror: (5, 'EOF occurred in violation of protocol')

It is a bug in MS IIS, it just closes the SSL socket rather than going
through the SSL shutdown negotiation. I don't think you can work
around this using httplib.

This is discussed in SourceForge bug id 494762. That was closed
without fix so I have opened a new one 544234.