Python and SSL

["Martin v. Löwis"]

>      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