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(Probably the same root cause as issue11725 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.