urllib en https

[Cecil Westerhof]

Cecil Westerhof wrote:

> Something went wrong with my last post. So, again:
> 
> I have a strange problem. I wrote a script that uses urllib.urlopen to
> fetch a page through https. In Python 2.2.2 this works without a problem.
> But when I use the script in Python 2.4.1 (which is more recent) I get:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/urllib.py", line 79, in urlopen
> return opener.open(url, data)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/urllib.py", line 177, in open
> return self.open_unknown(fullurl, data)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/urllib.py", line 189, in open_unknown
> raise IOError, ('url error', 'unknown url type', type)
> IOError: [Errno url error] unknown url type: 'https'

I found the problem. The first Python was compiled with ssl support enabled
and the second without ssl support enabled.