download mbox files over https using python

I was trying to find the right module for downloading kernel patches from kernel.org site

For example,to download the file at https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/62948/mbox/

I understand urlgrabber has a problem with https on debian. urllib2 seems to have problem with this url as w开发者_JAVA百科ell (says getaddrinfo failed, even though there are no problems reaching other urls)

Any help would be appreciated

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Curious, this url should work fine (though I've tried it on Mac OS X only). I used this very simple test in my code:

import urllib
get_url = lambda url : urllib.urlopen(url).read()
data = get_url('https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/62948/mbox/')

Of course, this loads the result into memory - but it does work. What version of Python are you using? The only thing I can think of is that your Python socket module has been compiled without SSL support.

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Hmm, maybe you need redirect handling?