[Tutor] How to use urllib2.https_open with SSL support in Windows XP for python 2.5.2

[arsyed]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:26 PM, xbmuncher <xboxmuncher at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:40 PM, xbmuncher <xboxmuncher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I wanted to use the urllib2.https_open()  but it said the module did not
>> > exist.
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>> I'm not aware of a urllib2.https_open() function. I think you just
>> give an https url to urllib2.urlopen(). Can you show us your actual
>> code and error message?
>>
>> Kent
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> http://docs.python.org/lib/https-handler-objects.html
> I accessed it like this:
> urllib2.https_open(req)
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> Its probably the syntax formation of using this https functionality that I
> have wrong. Maybe you can show me how.
>

That method is part of the HTTPSHandler class as the docs page you
cited implies.  I believe this is what urllib2.urlopen instantiates
once it parses your URL and notices the "https" scheme.  You don't
need to instantiate that handler and invoke that method directly.