https on ActiveState Python 2.4?

[Fredrik Lundh]

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?)

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