GAE Hello world error

Google App Engine supports SSL now, however Python 2.5 does not come with SSL socket in stock :(

gae$ /usr/local/bin/dev_appserver.py \
~/projects/hello/
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/dev_appserver.py", line 50, in <module>
execfile(script_path, globals())
File "/usr/local/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/dev_appserver_main.py", line 338, in <module>
sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
File "/usr/local/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/dev_appserver_main.py", line 297, in main
server = MakeRpcServer(option_dict)
File "/usr/local/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/dev_appserver_main.py", line 259, in MakeRpcServer
host_override=option_dict[ARG_ADMIN_CONSOLE_HOST])
File "/usr/local/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py", line 114, in __init__
self.opener = self._GetOpener()
File "/usr/local/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py", line 317, in _GetOpener
opener.add_handler(urllib2.HTTPSHandler())
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTTPSHandler'

To resovle the problem you got to recomile Python with SSL support as instructed by Patrick Altman and then follow a regular  configure – make – make install routine.

Then you need to Edit the Modules/Setup.dist to uncomment a couple of lines:

# Socket module helper for SSL support; you must comment out the other
# socket line above, and possibly edit the SSL variable:
SSL=/usr/local/ssl
_ssl _ssl.c 
-DUSE_SSL -I$(SSL)/include -I$(SSL)/include/openssl 
-L$(SSL)/lib -lssl -lcrypto