fix Issue 71: gevent.httplib doesn't support HTTPSConnection. Patch by snb at spotify.

gevent/httplib.py

 # Copyright (C) 2010-2011 gevent contributors. See LICENSE for details.
-__httplib__ = __import__('httplib')
+
+# Get the standard Python httplib as __httplib__, ensuring we get a version
+# that hasn't already been modified by monkey patching of any of its members.
+# HTTPSConnection must use the standard HTTPConnection because libevent-http
+# does not currently support https.
+import imp
+__httplib__ = imp.load_module('__httplib__', *imp.find_module('httplib'))
 
 from gevent import core
 from gevent.hub import Waiter, get_hub
@@ -10,6 +16,7 @@ __implements__ = [
 ]
 
 __imports__ = [
+    'HTTPSConnection',
     'HTTPException',
     'InvalidURL',
 ]
@@ -19,6 +26,7 @@ __all__ = __implements__ + __imports__
 InvalidURL = __httplib__.InvalidURL
 HTTP_PORT = __httplib__.HTTP_PORT
 HTTPException = __httplib__.HTTPException
+HTTPSConnection = __httplib__.HTTPSConnection
 
 EV_METHOD_TYPES = dict((name, id) for (id, name) in core.HTTP_method2name.items())
 

gevent/monkey.py

@@ -180,9 +180,10 @@ def patch_select(aggressive=False):
 
 
 def patch_httplib():
-    from gevent.httplib import HTTPConnection
     httplib = __import__('httplib')
+    from gevent.httplib import HTTPConnection, HTTPSConnection
     httplib.HTTPConnection = HTTPConnection
+    httplib.HTTPSConnection = HTTPSConnection
 
 
 def patch_all(socket=True, dns=True, time=True, select=True, thread=True, os=True, ssl=True, httplib=False, aggressive=True):