Windows SSL support in Python
24th July 2002
Adding SSL support to Python on Windows is as easy as dropping a couple of DLLs and a .pyd
file in to your Python DLLs directory. Grab the zip file from this page and off you go. I haven’t tried it out yet but it appears to work—the socket.ssl function miraculously appeared when I installed the new files. Why is this useful? Because it opens the way for secure XML-RPC calls from Python applications...
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