A test of SSL support, using a roundabout method suggested by Guido.

However, this is only enabled with regrtest's --use=network switch.

Lib/test/test_socket_ssl.py

+# Test just the SSL support in the socket module, in a moderately bogus way.
+
+import test_support
+
+# Optionally test SSL support.  This currently requires the 'network' resource
+# as given on the regrtest command line.  If not available, nothing after this
+# line will be executed.
+test_support.requires('network')
+
+import socket
+import urllib
+
+urllib.urlopen('https://sf.net')