[Pythonmac-SIG] Package Manager idea, adding a URL scheme

[Just van Rossum]

Jack Jansen wrote:

> This is what you're missing: we cannot use SSL to transfer the
> database, because core Python has no SSL support.

What about:
  http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-socket.html#l2h-2422

socket.ssl() seems available on OSX. Or is it the fact that that it
doesn't do certificate verification the big showstopper?

Just