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On 5/23/2013 9:58 AM, Kihup Boo wrote:
> I am trying to make an HTTPS connection and read that HTTPS support is
> only available if the socket module was compiled with SSL support.
>
> _http://www.jython.org/docs/library/httplib.html_
>
> Can someone elaborate on this? Where can I get the socket module for
> HTTPS, or how do I build one if I have to?

This is mostly a CPython oriented list. Any prebuilt CPython binary you 
get likely has SSL support compiled in. If you want to know about the 
jython socket module, you should check on a jython list, or just try it.