SSL error: 2.1.1 works but 2.2 doesn't

[Walter Miller]

Apologies if this has been discussed/solved already. 
I looked for prior postings but haven't found a
solution for fixing this error I'm getting with
_socket.pyd on 2.2.

Using Gerhard Häring's "socket.pyd with SSL support
for Python 2.2 on Windows"
(http://www.cs.fhm.edu/~ifw00065/downloads/python22-win32-ssl.zip):

"""
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\test.py", line 3, in ?
    doc =
urllib2.urlopen("https://www.medi-cal.ca.gov").read()
  File "C:\Python22\lib\urllib2.py", line 138, in
urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data)
  File "C:\Python22\lib\urllib2.py", line 322, in open
    '_open', req)
  File "C:\Python22\lib\urllib2.py", line 301, in
_call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "C:\Python22\lib\urllib2.py", line 792, in
https_open
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPS, req)
  File "C:\Python22\lib\urllib2.py", line 774, in
do_open
    code, msg, hdrs = h.getreply()
  File "C:\Python22\lib\httplib.py", line 728, in
getreply
    response = self._conn.getresponse()
  File "C:\Python22\lib\httplib.py", line 572, in
getresponse
    response = self.response_class(self.sock)
  File "C:\Python22\lib\httplib.py", line 98, in
__init__
    self.fp = sock.makefile('rb', 0)
  File "C:\Python22\lib\httplib.py", line 607, in
makefile
    buf = self.__ssl.read()
socket.sslerror: (5, 'EOF occurred in violation of
protocol')
""""


Here's the code:

"""
import urllib2

doc =
urllib2.urlopen("https://www.medi-cal.ca.gov").read()
print doc
"""


This works using Python 2.1.1 and Al Dass's
_socket.pyd: 
http://home.attbi.com/~al.dass/dev/python/2.1.1/win32_socket_ssl/python_2_1_1_ssl_socket.zip


any ideas?  BTW, using Win2k Pro.  I also verified
this on FreeBSD 4.5: Python 2.1.1 "works" (returns the
document) but all subsequent versions produce errors.

Walter

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