windows installers ssl module / openssl broken for some sites

[kiilerix]

BPO	11736
Nosy	@loewis, @orsenthil

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assignee = None
closed_at = <Date 2014-06-18.06:12:47.340>
created_at = <Date 2011-04-01.12:49:55.210>
labels = ['OS-windows']
title = 'windows installers ssl module / openssl broken for some sites'
updated_at = <Date 2014-06-18.06:12:47.339>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/kiilerix'

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closer = 'loewis'
components = ['Windows']
creation = <Date 2011-04-01.12:49:55.210>
creator = 'kiilerix'
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issue_num = 11736
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priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'out of date'
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status = 'closed'
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue11736'
versions = ['Python 2.7']

[kiilerix]

(Probably the same root cause as bpo-11725 and using the same test case and analysis, but it seems like it isn't just somebody elses problem.)

Expected behaviour:

C:\Python26>python --version

Python 2.6.4

C:\Python26>python -c "import urllib2; urllib2.urlopen('https://www.finratrace.org')"

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<string>", line 1, in <module>

File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 124, in urlopen

    return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)

File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 395, in open

    response = meth(req, response)

File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 508, in http_response

'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)

File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 433, in error

return self._call_chain(*args)

File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 367, in _call_chain

    result = func(*args)

File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 516, in http_error_default

    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

but

C:\Python26>python --version

Python 2.6.5

C:\Python26>python -c "import urllib2; urllib2.urlopen('https://www.finratrace.org')"
(hangs...)

the same behaviour is seen on all following versions up to 2.7.1.

I guess the Python windows installer started to contain an openssl that changed something?

I think this has caused a number of strange Mercurial bug reports.

[BreamoreBoy]

I don't recall any recent reports of this problem so think this can be closed as "out of date"?