httplib question

[David McInnis]

I need to write a small client that can access https (SSL) page?  Is
this possible with httplib under 2.1?  

This is the error that I received.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Python21/pyapps/emediawire_.py", line 39, in ?
    f = urllib.urlopen("https://www.<<deleted>>")
  File "C:\Python21\lib\urllib.py", line 71, in urlopen
    return _urlopener.open(url)
  File "C:\Python21\lib\urllib.py", line 173, in open
    return self.open_unknown(fullurl, data)
  File "C:\Python21\lib\urllib.py", line 185, in open_unknown
    raise IOError, ('url error', 'unknown url type', type)
IOError: [Errno url error] unknown url type: 'https'


Sincerely,

David A McInnis